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There are hardware bugs that are impossible to fix in microcode. What then?
by throwaway2048 9y ago
There are hardware bugs that are impossible to fix in microcode. What then?
- baq 9y agoyou make workarounds in software, obviously.
- userbinator 9y ago...or recall all the hardware and replace it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
- coldtea 9y agoThere will always be. What then? We stop producing cpus and wait for some magical new technology that prevents all bugs?
- throwaway2048 9y agoIts why you can't treat hardware bugs and dismiss them flippantly like software ones.