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    The Pentium Flaw NT1110 Computer Structure and Logic Unit 2 Analysis The Pentium floating-point unit flaw only occurred on some models of the original Pentium microprocessor chip. Any of the Pentium family processors with a clock speed of at least 120 MHz is new enough not to have the bug. On the affected microprocessor models, the Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility checks for the floating-point unit flaw. Professor Thomas Nicely sent an email describing the flaw that he had discovered

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    circuit under test (CUT). Example: SRT Algorithm. [3] System Design Failure are failures in a design, a manufacturing or an assembly process, or a product or service. The Pentium Bug and Ariane 5 Disaster are some of the system design failures. The Pentium Bug: THE ISSUE: The Pentium bug or Pentium FDIV bug was a computer arithmetic bug that affected the floating point unit (FPU) instruction set of

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