I sure as hell hope so!

Chris

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> 
> > Some intermediate-age 'LC040 chips have an acknowledged bug in the
> > interrupt generated for unimplemented floating point instructions.  If you
> > had bought the CPU chip directly from Motorola you would be entitled to a
> > free replacement (but not free installation).  However you bought it as
> > part of a system from Apple so your contract is with Apple, not Motorola.
> > Furthermore the bug does not appear in software running under MacOS (except
> > for Software FPU, which Apple doesn't support).  I think Apple has a
> > defensable argument that it is not a relevant defect for their systems, but
> > you can try.
> 
> But... that means that Apple is entitled to a free replacement for all of
> the buggy LC040's, right?  ;-)
> 
> 
> Just a thought,
> David
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