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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