> On 19-Nov-98 doctor@fruitbat.org wrote:
> > Think of how the Intel Floating Point Bug would have been a
> > non-issue if Pentiums were microcode upgradable?
>
> i think that was a bad example to pick
> the floating point bug was (i believe) caused by crosstalk
> no amount of re-microcoding could have fixed that!
Actually, it was a large lookup table (or similar item) on the chip
which was created with missing data. That was why the bug surfaced
only for certain number ranges.
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