[plug] Intel chip graffiti

[Terry Porter]

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, David Campbell wrote:

> I don't know if anyone has seen this before but...
> 
> David Campbell
> 
> > 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 on http://www.idt.mdh.se/kpt/billsux.jpg
> =======================================================
> campbell at torque.net
> 
> "There is no such thing as a bug in the Linux 2.1.x kernels
> Consider it as a request from the enlightened for you to brush
> up on your C programming and help improve the kernel."
>

Its a fake, sadly. Search slashdot, they have the before and after
pics there.

terry 

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