Rumor has it that Gene Buckle may have mentioned these words:
> > The Stores in a certain college where I once worked insisted on checking
> > every delivery to make sure it was complete. I couldn't undertand why one
> > or two ICs in several orders were faulty, until I realised they took them
> > all out of the tubes to count them :-(
> >
>Intel or AMD had a similar problem (huge yield problems) because of an
>overzealous clerk counting silicon wafers by hand. By *touching* them.
I'm surprised that Intel didn't try to blame the Pentium FDIV bug on that...
It still cracks me up that according to Intel I'm a 48,000-year-old man... ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch_at_30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Received on Sat Oct 26 2002 - 11:40:00 BST