[vcf-midatlantic] We made the NY Times (sort of)

Dean Notarnicola dean.notarnicola at vcfed.org
Sat Jan 9 01:18:12 UTC 2021


FDIV bug was PIII

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 7:29 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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
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> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:19 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> > I am actually on a slack thread with people at work about the 1995
> > Pentium III error.
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> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 10:41 AM Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic
> > <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> > > https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/style/retrocomputing.html
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