I was wrong. It was the Pentium. I was thinking of a bug in the PIII MMX instructions. The past can be murky... On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 8:18 PM Dean Notarnicola <dean.notarnicola@vcfed.org> wrote:
FDIV bug was PIII
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 7:29 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I thought the Pentium I had the error. I heard that it was supposed to be the 586, but when they did the math it only came out to 585.73784629083
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:19 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I am actually on a slack thread with people at work about the 1995 Pentium III error.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 10:41 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/style/retrocomputing.html