<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>OK, folks, I checked the index of a book on my library shelf - <i>Inside Intel</i> - for "Letterman" and bingo. See the attached for the excerpt from this 1997 book, with this being the most important part from the last page of the attached file:</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_ke6ex1ao1" alt="Monolog.jpg" width="483" height="41"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>So, indeed, apparently monolog and not Top Ten.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian Berg<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 8:49 PM Win Treese <<a href="mailto:treese@acm.org">treese@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hi, Ellen.<br>
<br>
I had a vague idea of Pentium top ten lists from back when it happened, but not from Letterman. You may have seen this: the web page <a href="https://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=PentiumJokes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=PentiumJokes</a> has a couple of lists, ,which are excerpted below for general amusement. It was certainly common at the time for people to make up their own Top Ten lists.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Win<br>
<br>
TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM --------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
9.9999973251 It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug<br>
8.9999163362 It's Close Enough, We Say So<br>
7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes<br>
6.9999831538 You Don't Need to Know What's Inside<br>
5.9999835137 Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well<br>
4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really<br>
3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful<br>
2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?<br>
1.9999103517 We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws<br>
0.9999999998 The Errata Inside<br>
<br>
<br>
THE TOP TEN REASONS TO BUY A PENTIUM MACHINE<br>
============================================<br>
<br>
10. YOUR CURRENT COMPUTER IS TOO ACCURATE<br>
9. YOU WANT TO GET INTO THE GUINNESS BOOK AS "OWNER OF MOST<br>
EXPENSIVE PAPERWEIGHT"<br>
8. MATH ERRORS ADD ZEST TO LIFE<br>
7. YOU NEED AN ALIBI FOR THE I.R.S.<br>
6. YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT<br>
5. YOU'VE ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE A<br>
PLAINTIFF<br>
4. THE "INTEL INSIDE" LOGO MATCHES YOUR DECOR PERFECTLY<br>
3. YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT CPU OVERHEATING<br>
2. YOU GOT A GREAT DEAL FROM JPL<br>
1. IT'LL PROBABLY WORK<br>
<br>
> On Aug 15, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Ellen Spertus <<a href="mailto:spertus@mills.edu" target="_blank">spertus@mills.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Thank you, Paul! <br>
> <br>
> As nice of a story as it would have been to have floating point<br>
> humour in the late night show cannon, it seems that this one<br>
> isn't true.<br>
> <br>
> Per my original email, there was a 1996 thesis referencing a 1994 internal Intel document that Letterman did make a joke during his monologue, which may have been:<br>
> <br>
> You know what goes great with those defective Pentium chips?<br>
> Defective Pentium salsa!<br>
> <br>
> Do any of you know someone with enough clout at Intel to find out what their archivists say?<br>
> <br>
> This may be an instance of the Mandela Effect.<br>
> <br>
> Here's another story involving floating point: I used to spend time at the University of Washington CSE Department and Microsoft. To drive from one to the other, you would drive over the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. I always referred to it as the "floating point" bridge, and nobody ever raised an eyebrow. I see a nonironic reference to the Evergreen Floating Point Bridge in a Los Angeles Times article about a traffic accident.<br>
> <br>
> Ellen<br>
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