I can't stop collecting computers... help! 🤓
Picked up 7 PCs today, including; #gateway2000 (#Pentium & #PentiumII), #Cyrix 586 and a few modern-ish ones. Along with a whole stack of software. #chuffed

PDF for William Kahan's Beastly Numbers paper:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/tests/numbeast.pdf

"It seems unlikely that two computers, designed by different people 1800 miles apart, would be upset in the same way by the same two floating-point numbers 65535... and 4294967295... , but it has happened."

#postmortem #floatingpoint #x87 #cyrix

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