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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] 1 points 3 hours 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] 1 points 3 hours 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] 6 points 7 hours ago

30.333739068902037589 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

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