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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Floating point probs?
To: peter@spinner.dialix.com (Peter Wemm)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:44:02 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199701170540.NAA03128@spinner.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Jan 17, 97 01:40:31 pm
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> > After perusing the list for a while I hear that "there are some
> > floating point problems with the SMP code". What problems, and
> > when do they arise (I'm thinking of buying the Gigabyte 586dx MB soon)?
> 
> My personal feeling is that the problems are of the same order as the 
> Shuttle Challenger's problems.
> 
> I don't really know how to fix it, because I have not researched how the 
> fpu interlocking works and really don't know what the right approach is.

Call Richard Feynman's son.  He will probably put your CPU in a glass
of ice water while you discuss the problem in great gory detail...

(Just another Challenger reference to match the first).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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