Messages in this thread | | | From | doctor@fruitbat ... | Subject | Re: Intel microcode fixes [OFF-TOPIC] | Date | Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:48:57 -0800 (PST) |
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Simon Kenyon said ... > > On 19-Nov-98 doctor@fruitbat.org wrote: > > Think of how the Intel Floating Point Bug would have been a > > non-issue if Pentiums were microcode upgradable? > > i think that was a bad example to pick > the floating point bug was (i believe) caused by crosstalk > no amount of re-microcoding could have fixed that!
Possibly. But that's not to say that changing the microcode couldn't provide a fix for it (provided that the FP was implemented in microcode ;-) Anyway, the point is that this idea of programmable CPUs is nothing new. It's just taken this long for the technology to trickle down to the microprocessor implementation.
> simon
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