[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[David Froble]

johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 5:23:27 PM UTC-4, seasoned_geek wrote:
> 
>> Actually wasn't it the 486? Rather than dump the chips with the problem
>> they cut some pins/lines and the 486SX was born.
> 
> Perhaps you are thinking of this one 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
> 
> EJ

Yes, that one.  The key thing to me was Intel's "so what" attitude. 
Apparently it was important to others also.