ChrisRƎTRO on Nostr: Came across this screenshot of the Windows 2000 installer related to the FDIV bug ...
Came across this screenshot of the Windows 2000 installer related to the FDIV bug some of the early Intel Pentium processors exhibited.
Interesting to see that the installer still checks for it, though none of the affected CPUs officially meet the min. requirements for the OS.
#retrocomputing
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