NT1110 Unit 5 Analysis 1: Pentium Flaw The Pentium flaw began to be noticed on a public level in 1994. This was a huge flaw considering that the Pentium processor was used in 80% of the personal computers worldwide. The microprocessor is the heart of the computer and controls all of the operations and calculations that take place. “Flaws are not uncommon in complicated integrated circuits and most of them go unnoticed by the user” (Fleddermann, 2004). However, the Pentium flaw was very different. It
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Pentium Flaw While doing some mathematic calculations on his newly acquired Pentium system, Dr. Thomas Nicely who is a Professor of Mathematics at Lynchburg College noticed some inconsistencies. The date was June 13, 1994. Through a process of elimination / troubleshooting, on October 19, 1994 the professor had exhausted all other possible reasons and or causes for the miscalculations. On October 24, 1994, Dr. Nicely reported his problem to Intel. Intel ignored the doctors concerns. Then on October
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Breanna McCarthy NT 1110 comp. strategies & logic Unit 5 Analysis 1 Pentium Flaw Nature of Pentium flaw: Engineers discovered a flaw in the microprocessor in the floating point math subsection. This would cause low order bits to be incorrect. This could quickly lead to larger errors in calculations When and how it was discovered: This flaw was discovered in 1994. Apparently Intel engineers found it but decided to keep it quiet until a professor, Dr. Thomas Nicely, discovered it and
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Unit 5 Analysis 1: Pentium Flaw The Pentium flaw was discovered by Intel testers in June of 1994. Intel determined that the flaw did not affect many people and did not inform anyone outside the company. Intel withholding this information was a recipe for disaster in the first place. This lead to the customers of Intel to assume that the company was not completely trustworthy. Finally in November of 1994, Intel announced the flaw, although they have known about it for months. Intel did not handle
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some of the processors that each manufacturer develops so that you can different differentiate between the various types of PCs you can see in the field. The Pentium microprocessor is the CPU (central processing unit) for what are now possibly the widest-selling personal computers. Unlike previous CPUs that Intel made, the 486DX and Pentium chips included a floating-point unit (FPU) also know as a math coprocessor. Previous Intel CPUs did all their arithmetic using integers; programs that used floating-point
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“In June 1994, Intel engineers discovered a flaw in the floating-point math subsection of the Pentium microprocessor. Under certain data dependent conditions, low order bits of the result of floating-point division operations would be incorrect, an error that can quickly compound in floating-point operations to much larger errors in subsequent calculations. Intel corrected the error in a future chip revision, but nonetheless declined to disclose it. In October 1994, Dr. Thomas Nicely, Professor
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Unit 5 10/21/13 Intel engineers discovered a flaw in the floating-point math subsection of the Pentium microprocessor. Dr. Thomas professor of mathematics discovered the bug. He then tried to send intel a email about it and was waiting for a response. When there was no response after a few days he then went to the internet to spread the word of the bug he had found. Posting it on the internet the word got out fast and when the word got back to Intel they said “it was minor and not even a erratum”
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Comp TIA Six Steps to Troubleshooting 1. Identify the problem 2. Establish a theory of probable cause. 3. Test the theory to prove the cause. 4. Establish a plan of action to resolve the problem. * Implement the solution 5. Verify system functionality 6. Documentation. Numbering Systems * Decimal * Base 10 (represented by 10 symbols; that is, 0-9) * Humans like this because of our 10 fingers * Binary * Base 2 (represented by tow symbols, 0 and
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TASK 1 AbaKus Technology Interest Group at IIMK INTRODUTION Founded on July 18, 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Intel manufactures the Intel computer processors, Intel Overdrive CPU upgrades, networking devices, and is considered by most to be 'the' company that has influenced the hardware market. The Company offers platforms that incorporate various components and technologies, including a microprocessor and chipset, a stand-alone system-on-chip (SoC) or a multichip package. The Company
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Linux has grown in popularity and capability over the years, but is it competitive with its competition. In this paper an overview of the Linux 2.6 Operating System (OS) and how it functions/performs on the technical level will be discussed. Comparisons to other retail OSs such as, Windows, Mac OS X, and prior versions of Linux will be used to show the strengths and weaknesses of this OS. “Linux was created by a student (Linus Torvalds) in Helsinki in 1991 with the assistance of developers
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