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It’s been 30 years since Intel’s infamous Pentium FDIV bug reared its ugly head – a math bug caused Intel’s first CPU recall (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

There was a joke that the successor to the RU-486 contraceptive pill was the RU-Pentium, and it worked by preventing the embryo from dividing correctly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

remember seeing bumper stickers: “Intel inside, don’t divide.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Huh, I practically only know Intel as having defects and vulnerabilities, but I didn't know this had such a long history...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

This still stresses me out because my software is mission critical, safety related, and blindly assumes that the calculations will be correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

30.333739068902037589 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

ya know somewhere is one person who will never forgive themselves.