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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

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨misk@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/its-been-30-years-since-intels-infamous-pentium-fdiv-bug-reared-its-ugly-head-a-math-bug-caused-intels-first-cpu-recall

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    30.333739068902037589 years.

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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