[Info-vax] AlphaServer DS10 470 MHz?
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Tue Mar 6 17:19:55 EST 2012
On 2012-03-04 10.07, David Froble wrote:
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <20120122214212.09ddd495 at walker.schlensman.homeunix.net>,
>> Marc Schlensog <mschlens+news at gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:27:36 -0500
>>> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Could it be that one department was told that model would be 470mhz so
>>>> they built OS level config files with that model at 470, but when the
>>>> chip actually shipped it wa 463 ?
>>> The DS10 was marketed as having 466MHz and that's roughly what my DS10
>>> and the DS10ls had. The larger model was marketed as a 600 but had in
>>> fact 617MHz.
>>> No idea what VMS is thinking it's reporting.
>>
>> If it was marketing, they were probably using WEENDOZE on Pentiums at
>> the time. It's very likey that it's a result of the Pentium's highly
>> precise floating point math. ;)
>
> I thought it was the 386 that had the "highly precise floating point math"
No. It was/is the original Pentium that have the floating point bug.
Thus all the funny jokes about why it wasn't called the 80586 and so on...
Johnny
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