[HN Gopher] Intel: A Bug and a Pro - By Bradford Morgan White
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       Intel: A Bug and a Pro - By Bradford Morgan White
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-03-24 21:20 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.abortretry.fail)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.abortretry.fail)
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | About the F00F bug, and a nice read.
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       | Edit:
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       | Seems IBM stopping shipment of these buggy PCs forced Intel to
       | fix the problem. I cannot imaging today's IBM doing something
       | like this.
        
       | rwmj wrote:
       | Interestingly Linux uses "Coe's ratio" (4195835/3145727) dating
       | from 1994 to check for the FDIV bug.
       | 
       | Coe's ratio:
       | https://people.cs.vt.edu/~naren/Courses/CS3414/assignments/p...
       | (3rd page)
       | 
       | Linux code:
       | https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/b0cb56cbbdb4754918c28...
        
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