[rondrabkin]

OK then, I was very heavily involved in both the item in the Intro (the flaw in the first Pentium, I was the production control guy in the sole source factory) and #1 on the list (Itanium, I was trying to get hardware companies to work with their software suppliers to port to the new architecture using a very significant budget).

The common thread was Intel marketing pushing something that was a dog for marketing reasons

1. It is very amazing not in a good way when you think you have enough inventory but someone from HQ calls up the warehouse and has the older CPUs crushed by a bulldozer (you don't want to throw them out, they are quite usable)

2. Was amazing that sucker ran so hot tech support got a call about test boxes catching on fire