From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] How to do differential/integral on a PDP-7, was: Space Travel
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:55:30 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1910211547580.17400@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2019, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> If you want an example that might perhaps be easier to relate to, on the
> IBM PC, it wasn't until the Pentium that you could actually count on
> having a floating-point unit available. [...]
Am I the only one who remembers the Defectium (as we called it)? Intel
denied the the problem until their noses got rubbed into it, after which
they instructed Sales to refuse replacements for any chip that failed
after using a demo program that demonstrated said defect, claiming that it
would hardly ever happen.
Err, would you fly on an aircraft designed by Defectiums? Or cross a
bridge, etc?
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-21 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-19 14:40 [TUHS] Space Travel, was New: The Earliest UNIX Code Doug McIlroy
2019-10-19 18:32 ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-19 18:44 ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-19 19:19 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-19 19:50 ` Henry Bent
2019-10-19 19:55 ` [TUHS] Space Travel related question Thomas Paulsen
2019-10-19 20:19 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-19 20:24 ` [TUHS] Space Travel, was New: The Earliest UNIX Code Arthur Krewat
2019-10-19 20:12 ` [TUHS] How to do differential/integral on a PDP-7, was: Space Travel Michael Kjörling
2019-10-19 20:40 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-19 21:15 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-21 5:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-21 5:23 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-21 13:59 ` John P. Linderman
[not found] ` <68553366-4E6F-4E17-8903-282C67186D16@humeweb.com>
2019-10-26 2:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-26 2:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-21 4:55 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2019-10-21 19:21 ` Paul Winalski
2019-10-21 19:38 ` Kurt H Maier
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