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Pentium Probs

    21-Dec-94 23:06:49
Sb: #179389-Pentium Probs
Fm: Robert Comer 72446,656
To: Robert Little 72567,677
>If you just use Excel on any of your Pentiums, for any divide operations, >you are using floating point divides. Yep! >Our company had already demanded replacements before Intel totally backed >down. We only have 1 pentium machine in house, so it shouldn't be to hard to get a couple of new pentiums. (Dual pentium machine.) We haven't upgrade any of our 486's yet, and now we don't plan to until the pentium is fixed. >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). I agree, it's totally inexcusable in the computer world. >Thank goodness we haven't put too many mission critical applications on >PC's, yet. Amen! (We haven't either.) Warp 3 — Engage! Bob Comer Cheyenne, Wyoming U.S.A.