All programs are affected by the FDIV bug. It is a bug in the design of
the microprocessor. Linus has a way around it. The brain dead morons at
Microsoft have to make everyone else wait for a solution (That has yet to
come AFIK). Linux on the other hand usually has problems solved in a
matter of hours.
-Chuck
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Floris Looyesteyn wrote:
> I was wondering if Prime95 is affected by the Pentium
> FDIV bug. (or some name like that).
> I ask this because now i'm also using it on my laptop
> (great work george!) and when i installed linux some time
> ago it said the processor had this bug.
>
> Floris Looyesteyn
>
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