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Intel inside...hehe...
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Some great Pentium jokes:
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Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people.
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Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on
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Pentiums?
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A: The warning label.
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Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
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A: Successive approximations.
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Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply
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is to:
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1) Divide
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2) ROUND
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3) RANDOM
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4) On a Pentium, all of the above
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A: Number 4.
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Q: What algorithm did Intel use in the Pentium's floating point divider?
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A: "Life is like a box of chocolates." (Source: F. Gump of Intel)
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How about
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"Pentium is as pentium does"?
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Or better still...
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"Run, Pentium, RUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (with apologies to Jenny
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Curran)
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Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
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A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got
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585.999983605.
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Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754
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and 854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft
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designed using a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of
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"IEEE"?
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A: [Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee]
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TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM
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9.9999973251 It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug
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8.9999163362 It's Close Enough, We Say So
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7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
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6.9999831538 You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
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5.9999835137 Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well
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4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really
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3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful
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2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
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1.9999103517 We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws
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0.9999999998 The Errata Inside
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