Date   : Mon, 12 Dec 1994 14:30:34 +0000
From   : lamcw <lamcw@...>
Subject: Re: Snapper/Monsters/Rocket raid runs!

Mark Cooke wrote:

;FYI a p90 is a Pentium running at 90Mhz (turns an unpleasant shade of green)
;Is is one that's fixed? 


90MHz is quite a lot, I would have thought a beeb emulator would whizz along
at that pace.

; Pentiums have an interesting fault in the fdiv
;instruction that means it's a little less accurate than it should be.

I've been following this closely in comp.sys.intel. If the fault is as bad
some people are making it out to be, Intel are up shit creek. Naturally,
they're playing the whole thing down. I don't think it's only confined to
FDIV either...


;(Intel asked a Pentium what 486+100 was and got 585.9997, so they changed
;the name :-)  Credit for that one goes to someone on a usenet group)

As an impartial Mac user, I cannot condone such insensitive jokes 
<chortle>