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The Pentium F00F Bug (1998)
- Nexxxeh 9y agoFoof is also British slang, which in this case is almost appropriate.
- jwilk 9y agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foof https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foof
- digi_owl 9y agoWhy am i even surprised...
- maxerickson 9y agoAlso an exciting peroxide. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
- colejohnson66 9y agoOn a slightly related note: here’s a paper on the math behind the FDIV bug: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dd0f/ea9121741873fa46eed58190a011a1b1522a.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/dd0f/ea9121741873fa46eed581...
- ashleyn 9y agoThis was, in part, responsible for why Intel CPUs now have upgradeable microcode. Functions like these can be implemented in a software layer that has the ability to correct shipment defects. F00F is far from Intel's last bug; their last two generations featured transactional memory that had to be disabled from the microcode because it simply didn't work properly.
- mkagenius 9y agoIn case someone is wondering (like me): F00F != 2018
- LorenPechtel 9y agoChemists know to stay far away from FOOF. It's so reactive it will burn water.