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P66 FDIV Replacement Boxed

P66 FDIV Replacement Boxed

P66 Fdiv Replacement Boxed

P66 Fdiv Replacement Boxed

The first Pentium processors were released to an expectant world in March 1993. The Intel hype engine very much went into overdrive with the much-vaunted ‘Pentium’ processor being sold as the ‘next big thing’. 

The FDIV bug

All CPUs have bugs in them somewhere, somehow. These are logic or system errata; things that don’t quite work out as they should do. All CPU suppliers keep track of these issues as they are reported by the buying public, and once proven, a logic fix is issued into the next ‘stepping’ of the CPU, and eventually the manufacturer stop productions of the older design/stepping, and restarts using the new fixed one.

 

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