Same story different era

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Ohuiohui

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The same thing happened to intel with their first or second generation of Pentium processors. This was back in the 90's I think. Some expert ran a complex calculation with his computer and discovered the answer was wrong.

Upon releasing his findings there was of course denial at first but then intel came around and ponied up to the claim. Then intel had the gall to come out and say they would replace the 5 gabillion chips already out in the field but only if a user could prove that they perform calculations that required the fix. This was something like to the 6th decimal place on a spread sheet calculation if memory serves. Then the consumer industry was furious at intel for how dare they dictate who and who does not need to get a new chip just based on what calculations they perform.

If memory serves.... there were some default entries left out in the Pentium's registers or some kind of "lookup" table.

It will be interesting to see how Apple handles this.

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