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- Some great Pentium jokes:
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- Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people.
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- Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on
- Pentiums?
- A: The warning label.
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- Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
- A: Successive approximations.
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- Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply
- is to:
- 1) Divide
- 2) ROUND
- 3) RANDOM
- 4) On a Pentium, all of the above
- A: Number 4.
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- Q: What algorithm did Intel use in the Pentium's floating point divider?
- A: "Life is like a box of chocolates." (Source: F. Gump of Intel)
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- How about
- "Pentium is as pentium does"?
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- Or better still...
- "Run, Pentium, RUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (with apologies to Jenny
- Curran)
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- Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
- A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got
- 585.999983605.
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- Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754
- and 854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft
- designed using a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of
- "IEEE"?
- A: [Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee]
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- TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM
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- 9.9999973251 It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug
- 8.9999163362 It's Close Enough, We Say So
- 7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
- 6.9999831538 You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
- 5.9999835137 Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well
- 4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really
- 3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful
- 2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
- 1.9999103517 We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws
- 0.9999999998 The Errata Inside
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