Re: Using SS for non-stack operations?
- From: Terje Mathisen <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:12:53 +0100
David J. Craig wrote:
> If you find one of those, you should put it on ebay. All versions since
> then have it implemented properly. There is another processor, Pentium I
> think, that has a truncated floating point lookup table that can product bad
Take a quick Google for "Pentium FDIV bug" and/or "Pentium Papers", with
or without my name. :-)
I.e.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=Pentium+FDIV+bug+%2BTerje+%2BMathisen&start=0>
just returned 127 hits, nearly all of them relevant.
> results. You should never run into either of them. I would recommend using
> one of the clone 8088 chips for embedded work since I am sure they have
> reduced the size and power requirements compared to those big Intel 8088
> chips that were first released. For embedded work, the sockets are an
> unneeded failure point.
I agree.
Terje
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