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Q: How many
Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people.
Q: What do
you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant?
A: A mad scientist.
Q: What's
another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums?
A: The warning label.
Q: What do
you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
A: Successive approximations.
Q: Complete
the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply is to: 1) Divide
2) ROUND 3) RANDOM 4) On a Pentium, all of the above
A: Number 4.
Q: What algorithm
did Intel use in the Pentium's floating point divider?
A: "Life is like a box of chocolates..." (Source: F. Gump of Intel)
Q: Why didn't
Intel call the Pentium the 586?
A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605.
Q: According
to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754 and 854 for floating
point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft designed using a Pentium, what
is the correct pronunciation of "IEEE"?
A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!
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