Ken Shirriff on Nostr: Intel said the FDIV bug was unimportant, but the public disagreed. Newspapers and TV ...
Intel said the FDIV bug was unimportant, but the public disagreed. Newspapers and TV discussed the bug. Intel claimed the bug would happen every 27,000 years; IBM said every 24 days and stopped selling Pentiums. Intel gave in and replaced Pentiums at a cost of $475 million. 8/9
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