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EHH9 The P60 powered my first computer. I still have the original P60 chip from that PC. It had the FDIV bug. Hard to believe that was 33 years ago. Time flies. Reply
TechieTwo Then they eventually created the P90 "egg fryer" so you could cook breakfast on it. 🙁 Reply
ekio …and 33 years later, still this crap x86 ISA in their chips, now just 33 years even more obsolete. Reply
abufrejoval EHH9 said: The P60 powered my first computer. I still have the original P60 chip from that PC. It had the FDIV bug. Hard to believe that was 33 years ago. Time flies. Should be interesting to get it replaced on warranty now… Reply
Exploding PSU I miss watching the Computer Chronicles episode talking about this. That was years ago. I wonder what Stewart Chiefet is doing these days.. Reply
usertests ekio said: …and 33 years later, still this crap x86 ISA in their chips, now just 33 years even more obsolete. It works well and the alternatives aren't so much better and have other hassles. Reply
Nikolay Mihaylov Exploding PSU said: I miss watching the Computer Chronicles episode talking about this. That was years ago. I wonder what Stewart Chiefet is doing these days.. Sadly, he recently passed away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Cheifet I guess one can say he is working in the cloud.. Reply
abufrejoval ekio said: …and 33 years later, still this crap x86 ISA in their chips, now just 33 years even more obsolete. Evolution is like that. It doesn't reward the 'best design', just survival at every selection point. Just look into a mirror or at your genome: both aren't ideal in any which way, just happen to have made it through millions of years doing nothing more than surviving. Many argue thing started to go wrong when Eckert and Maulchy put code into the same memory as data and von Neumann wrote about it, because it created all these security issues we have today. Others argue that information technology would have died without. Reply
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