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From: Rick Siple <[email protected]>
To: "Chat Mailing List (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
Subject: High tech graffiti
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:23:28 -0400
This was forwarded to me from a coworker, who got it from someone else,
etc. So this could all be hearsay, but...
__________
Rick Siple
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: FW: Bill Sux
>
> Time Magazine reports an interesting case of high-tech graffiti. It
> seems
> that a couple of Intel engineers working on the design of a recent
> version of the Pentium microprocessor included a message that
> describes
> their feelings about Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, a good
> corporate
> pal of Intel's.
>
> When a portion of the Pentium chip is examined under a powerful
> scanning
> electron microscope, the phrase "bill sux" is clearly visible, etched
> into the surface of the chip. The "flaw" in the chip was only
> discovered
> by accident well after the chip was released into the market, too late
>
> for Intel to prevent the chip from being used in the manufacture of
> tens
> of thousands of PCs.
>
> Intel says that both engineers responsible were former employees of
> Motorola, makers of the chips that are the heart of the Apple
> Macintosh.
>
> Both engineers have since been fired by Intel. Full picture at
> http://www.idt.mdh.se/kpt/billsux.jpg
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