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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gordon Hlavenka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 16mhz 386sx running at 20mhz
Message-ID: <26c62d4f-f6.4comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Aug 90 05:55:06 GMT
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>Well, you see there are these little gerbils in the chip.  They run on this
>little wheel called the Arithmetic Logic Unit, and they do all the addition.

This is strange.  I had gerbils in my ALU but they didn't do addition, they
only multiplied.  CAVEAT:  keep the gerbils well fed, otherwise they will eat
your random number seed, and all your BASICA RND() functions will underflow.

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Gordon S. Hlavenka                 cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
Disclaimer: He's lying