Jon writes:
 
> Please excuse my sensitivity -- there never was a flaw in the
> PA-RISC chip.  The flaw was in our manufacturing process, and
> that process flaw has been corrected.
 
Actually...it is a flaw in the chip.
 
I think Jon is trying to say: there isn't a problem in the basic
design of the chip.     Well, except for maybe how the design stands up to
the vagaries of manufacturing processes? :)   (BTW: manufacturing chips
is an *art* ... trust me on this, from experience!)
 
It doesn't matter to the end user whether the flaw is a dropped line
of data in a ROM table on the chip (e.g., Pentium's FP bug), or a
manufacturing process problem...the result is the same to the user:
  a chip in a computer that doesn't quite work 100% correctly at all times.
 
However, I think HP gets kudos for handling this *much* better than
Intel did.
 
Stan (I'd much rather have a flawed HP chip than a flawed Intel chip) Sieler