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#Pentium Probs

    21-Dec-94 22:26:24
Sb: #179033-#Pentium Probs
Fm: Robert Little 72567,677
To: Robert Comer 72446,656
Bob, If you just use Excel on any of your Pentiums, for any divide operations, you are using floating point divides. We've got a few people around here double checking thier work on '486 machines just to be sure. Checking calculations on another machine (Jerry), is not an acceptable solution. Our company had already demanded replacements before Intel totally backed down. To everyone else as well, all my prejudices towards the Amiga aside… I've never seen an IBM mainframe or midrange computer perform a calculation that poorly (or any other companies). It is a 'VERY BIG' deal when you are dealing with millions of accounts and billions of dollars. It is a 'VERY BIG' deal. Perhaps not the home user or game player, but for big corporations it's a different story. Thank goodness we haven't put too many mission critical applications on PC's, yet. Robb