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Article #2310Re: PENTIUM BUG: PURITY TEST (UUENCODED BINARY)
From: Keith Pritchard
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 00:29
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 00:29
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Anthony Sidaway (tony@sidaway.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Guys, : I'm crossposting this extract from one of the comp.sys.intel Pentium FDIV : BUG threads to my local network's tech.pc newsgroup to try to solicit some : local UK responses. It's a repost of Terje Mathisen's p87test.zip. : bug. If you have a Pentium (wherever you're located) please extract the : enclosed uuencoded program and run it on your system, and report the results : here. This is a Pentium or better cpu, with full CPUID support: Vendor id = "GenuineIntel" Make = 05, stepping = 02, model = 02 It has the FDIV bug! (1.0/824633702449.0)*824633702449.0 is not equal to 1.0! Result from a very recent Gateway 2000 P5-90 board.... (listed on the board as rev10) Cheers, Keith -- ============= PGP Public Key Available from the usual Servers =============== Keith Pritchard | keith@datawell.demon.co.uk | Its Hard to work in a Aughton | 100101,1450 Compuserve | team when youre Lancashire,UK | | omnipotent ! 'Q' ST:TNG
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,4ec75a159daae016 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 110292,4ec75a159daae016 X-Google-Attributes: gid110292,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-17 07:06:47 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!swiss.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!datawell!keith From: keith@datawell.demon.co.uk (Keith Pritchard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,demon.tech.pc Subject: Re: PENTIUM BUG: PURITY TEST (UUENCODED BINARY) Followup-To: comp.sys.intel,demon.tech.pc Date: 14 Nov 1994 00:29:23 -0000 Organization: DataWell Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3a6b13$18e@datawell.demon.co.uk> References: <784752023snz@sidaway.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: datawell.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]