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From: Kalyan Kolachala <kal@chromatic.com>
Subject: Re: And you thought that the Pentium bug was bad!  (Get a load of this!)
Date: 1995/06/20
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Ron, there is a big difference in the two cases. 
 
The compiler (gcc ?) is free whereas people were paying for 
pentium. Secondly people were incensed with Intel  
because it was trying to cover up the bug and told too  
many lies about it.  
 
- Kalyan