Noted hardware historian and reverse-engineer Ken Shirriff recently found the exact transistors in the original Intel Pentium which caused the "FDIV bug", leading to a $475 million recall in 1994.
My first PC, a Pentium, was just a little more modern than the model in the video embedded below. Youngsters might be charmed ...
Today that count went up to two. It’s called the 86Duino and stuffs an old Pentium II-class machine capable of running DOS, Windows, and Linux into the space of an Arduino, The 86Duino Zero ...
Case in point an original (P54C) Intel Pentium, which [Ken Shirriff] took an in-depth look at. Using a by now almost unimaginably large 600 nm process, the individual elements of these standard ...