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InvaderFizz
on Nov 1, 2021
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Pentium on a 386 Motherboard
For those that weren't around for the release of the original Pentium CPUs, this off-by-one error is a callback to the bug[0] in the FPU. Hilarious.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
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0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug