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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com)

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But we can’t bankrupt Microsoft. Bill Gates can jump over a chair.❤️

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago*

The floating point bug we are talking about was in Intel Pentium processors. Also we need to bring back that news clip of Gates more often.

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[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’re talking about another company

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

OEM Problem, right?

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago

Can you expand on this question? I don’t understand.

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