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Mar 22, 1993 (36) Pentiums

18 years ago today, the first Pentium processors were shipped.

 
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3 comments to Mar 22, 1993 (36) Pentiums

  • blob
    April 24th, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Dudes, you totally failed to mention that while they were so busy worrying about how to market the thing, they forgot to make the CPU do math right.

    The Pentium Floating Point Division (FDIV) bug, which amounted to egg on Intel’s face more than anything (only appoximately 1 per 9 billion divisions would be affected), was nonetheless a humorous bit of related geeky history.

  • Wesley
    April 24th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    You know, now that you say that I remember it, but it totally failed to even enter my brain when doing the research for the topic.

    Egg on face, indeed! Good catch.

    You don’t happen to know what the “80″ stands for in “80586″ do you? :)

  • Jenny
    April 24th, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    Maybe I have to email Intel finally? :)