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title: "The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips 1st Edition"
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# The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips 1st Edition

**Brand:** robert p. colwell
**Price:** R1407
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- **What is this?** The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips 1st Edition by robert p. colwell
- **How much does it cost?** R1407 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A treat for practioners of computer engineering
  

*by H***G on Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2010*

It's really a treat. It should be in the bookshelf of a grad student or practioner in the fields of computer and electronics engineering.It is not written by some professional writer, instead, it is a book written by a engineer, with the very first-hand experience of the development of P6 architecture. If this book should have some imperfection or even mistake, I will take a psychological perspective to anylyze it -- just like I analyze my own development memos. 8-) As a reader of At Random, I can say that the writing of Mr. Colwell is comparable with those professional writers.BTW, I think the subtitle is quite fit for the content of this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Five Stars
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017*

Really great! I enjoyed this book - rare opportunity to see inside of complex engineering projects. Excellent book indeed.

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The book was a bit boring
  

*by S***D on Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2013*

I didn't really like the book.  The book is about how the Pentium Pro was created at Intel, but the writing was bland and otherwise uninteresting.  The author appears to have a massive ego and justifies a bit too many decisions.Although I don't expect a unbiased perspective, too much of the book is devoted to how great Intel is and how cool the Pentium Pro was, and how much credit the Pentium Pro team deserved.  Errors were always the fault of "management" or other outside forces.Overall, the only part of the book I found interesting was a technical analysis of how the Pentium floating point error came to be, and how, as one might expect, it was caused by a last-minute decision.  Incidentally, the Pentium fdiv bug had nothing to do with the Pentium Pro; it was just one of the sections in the appendix.

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