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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
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- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.075930.13596@sequent.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 07:59:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan04.073317.15131@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >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
- >
-
- Yes, there are undocumented ASM calls in the x86 line, but they are
- suicide to use, and were never intended for production level
- support. But, heh, there are stupid people out there, and they need
- something to do with their time. :)
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