Another great article from Ken. I remember this particularly because the first PC that I bought with my own money had an affected CPU. Prior to this era I hadn'

Another great article from Ken. I remember this particularly because the first PC that I bought with my own money had an affected CPU. Prior to this era I hadn't been much interested in PCs because they couldn't run "real" software. But Windows NT changed that (thank you Mr. Cutler), and Taiwanese sourced low cost motherboards made it practical to build your own machine, as many people still do today. Ken touched on the fact that it was easy for users to check if their CPU was affected. I remember that this was as easy as typing a division expression with the magic numbers into Excel. If MS had released a version of Excel that worked around the bug, I suspect fewer users would have claimed their replacement device!