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- From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.073317.15131@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 07:33:17 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan03.080809.1129@microsoft.com> <1993Jan3.200721.4807@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
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- In article <1993Jan3.200721.4807@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >: Trimming down some of the excessive quoting - apologies for any
- >: important context lost.
- >:
- >:
- >: In article <1993Jan2.191843.21694@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- >: >philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >: >:
- >: >: If you claim to be 100% Intel compatible, and your processor
- >: >: exhibits difference in behavior from Intel's, should Intel be
- >: >: responsible for changing their product?
- >: >
- >: >A difference in behaviour I interpret to mean in external interface,
- >: >*not* internal mechanics. If this were not the case then the 486 could
- >: >not claim to be compatible with the 386....
- >:
- >: Identical in all ways used by external clients - this may
- >: involve more than the external interface.
- >
- >Excuse me? Does this mean something, and if so could you explain it please?
- >
-
- Yes. Not all interfaces are documented. If some application
- is using one of those, it's clearly not covered by the functional
- specification. In this case, who's to say which product is more
- compatible? I suggest that it should be the original - the cloners
- have the responsibility of correcting their own product to match,
- or ignore the application in question.
- I honestly don't know if Intel has undocumented stuff on
- their chips, though, so the analogy is not a very tight one.
-
- -Phil
-
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