Pentium Navajo rug

Computer Historian Finds Pentium Rug

Not to be confused with a Pentium bug

Computer historian and reverse engineer Ken Shirriff found a traditional Navajo rug woven to resemble a die shot of the original Intel Pentium. Commissioned by Intel as a gift to the American Indian Science & Engineering Society, it’s exhibited at the National Gallery of Art. It’s fun to think back to a time when Intel processors required more area for execution units than fetch, decode, and branch-prediction logic.


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