Rod, at 09:47 on Jun 19 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

RS> Corse only a completely rabid one eyed zealot would be silly enough
RS> to not admit that its a graphic example of a total fuckup on QC.

BG> Of course somebody at USR has fucked-up big time, but
BG> unlike some, I tend not to gloat about things like that,

RS> I wasnt gloating,

Sorry, you misunderstood me.  I wasn't actually implying that you were.

RS> just commenting on your bit at the top that 'it wasn't really their fault'. 
RS> Corse it was, they fucked up the QC.

Yeah, I realise that too, but as I said previously, the "not really
their fault" relates more to the faulty component being sourced from a
third party, and one could also reasonably argue that AMD were no less
culpable, because their QA missed it as well. More like a comedy of errors,
but I doubt too many people were overly amused.

RS> Dunno, Frankowitz its being pretty fucking evasive, wouldnt surprise me
RS> in the slightest if some complete dork in USR managed to order the wrong
RS> version of the flashrom from AMD and the fuckwits didnt catch that in QC.

I've actually checked the part numbers of Russell's stuffed AMD FROMs
against mine, and apart from the date code and some incidental numbers
being slightly different, they are still essentially the same components.

Anyway, as mine still works, I really couldn't care less.  :)

Regards, Bill
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