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

[Dean Notarnicola]

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 at vcfed.org>
wrote:

> FDIV bug was PIII
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> 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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