[580] in Humor
HUMOR: Even MORE Pentium Jokes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Dec 1 10:02:35 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 09:58:02 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Gee, is anyone forwarding these things to Intel? :)
-Drew
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 13:12:37 PST
From: Connie_Kleinjans@Novell.COM (Connie Kleinjans)
Subject: HUMOR: Top Ten Excuses Why QT Emulation Didn't Find the Pentium FPU Bug
From: "Mark D Baushke" <mdb@cisco.com>
From: Steve Elias <eli@cisco.com>
(forwards elided)
Top Ten Excuses Why QT Emulation Didn't Find the Pentium FPU Bug
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10) Intel couldn't afford to buy enough QT hardware in order to verify beyond
5 decimal places.
9) Actually did find the problem but didn't want to say anything because,
"we're shy."
8) Spent more time verifying QT hardware than Intel hardware.
7) Decided it was more important to verify all the obscure undocumented
opcodes that nobody knows about than it was to see if the math was
actually correct.
6) Figured if there were any problems with the chip could always fix it by
doing a slingshot around the sun and going back in time like in Star Trek.
5) Intel used a 486 PC to check the math on the Pentium emulator.
4) Money Intel spent for QT emulators actually went to buy hookers and booze
for Andy Grove.
3) Didn't do an exhaustive check of all the math functions. Got as far as
2 + 2 = 5 and figured that was good enough.
2) Pentium testing consisted mostly of playing tetris until a score of 100,000
was achieved.
1) There was an FPU in that thing?
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