24 Jan
2013
24 Jan
'13
1:59 p.m.
> Back in the day, I heard the FPU was
"disconnected" with laser-drilled
> holes on dice that failed FPU testing, then the package was labelled
> to match. To be clear, a wafer was made up of dice that were intended
> to be sold as 486DX chips but failed FPUs (and most likely enough ones
> with good FPUs to cover customer demand) were pierced.
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, geneb wrote:
Dice? Do you mean "dies" maybe?
perhaps, but the cubic throwable random number generator (see: CRAPS) is
called a die, with a plural of dice.
SOME people use "dice" for the singular as well.
What did Ceasar say when he crossed the Rubicon?
("alea iacta est")
Is the "die", of semiconductor fabrication, from a different word root?
Is a die, as in a mold, from a different root?
Its plural is usually "dies"