maxima error in linux but not windows

Could someone please explain why I receive an error while using
maxima on a linux FC6 system while all is well running the same
command on windows XP on older hardware with less memory.



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Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name HILBERT (Dell Precision workstation 210)
User Name almis

Motherboard:
CPU Type 2x Intel Pentium IIIE, 700 MHz
Motherboard Name Dell Precision WorkStation 210 MT
Motherboard Chipset Intel 82440BX/ZX
System Memory 512 MB

Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) fpprec:5000;
(%o1) 5000
(%i2) bfloat(2^sqrt(3));
(%o2) 3.3219970854839128051571831196478269391591208980022591297503562383754604\
(60 lines deleted)
934959522994472547104633133615941577672346064378018604745890678046610648512760\
831652353510781b0
(%i3)

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Linux version 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 (brewbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13))
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 44
model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1599.999
cache size : 256 KB
MemTotal: 1034760 kB
MemFree: 38572 kB

Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp CMU Common Lisp 19c Fedora Extras release 7.fc6 (19C)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) fpprec:5000;
(%o1) 5000
(%i2) bfloat(2^sqrt(3));

Maxima encountered a Lisp error:


Error in function KERNEL::INTEXP:
The absolute value of 16622 exceeds EXTENSIONS:*INTEXP-MAXIMUM-EXPONENT*.

Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
(%i3)
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tnx ...al
.

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