Good point. At the time, if Intel had had a better response to it, perhaps many people would have been fine to continue using their faulty CPU as a Pentium "wit

Good point. At the time, if Intel had had a better response to it, perhaps many people would have been fine to continue using their faulty CPU as a Pentium "without FPU", or only in contexts where they did not really care that much (e.g. playing games).