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    From ChrisMac@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 8 13:02:30 2017
    Anonymous Remailer (austria);1104857 Wrote:
    In article 8737542fxy.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk
    Richard Kettlewell invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:-

    Anonymous nobody@remailer.paranoici.org writes:-
    Pentium FDIV bug.

    Intel is historically sloppy.-

    Sloppy compared to what? Most (all?) CPUs have/had bugs.-

    not to the degree intel cpus do. modern intel is like cyrix.

    Is it that bad? I had no idea about this controversy so I'm thinking
    it's overblown. But maybe I'm wrong.




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