Re: Pentium II Math Bug

alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed, 7 May 1997 18:33:23 +0200

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> - and don't go see the page about comparison between Pentium-II and K6
> (and others) because the guy has sufficiently little knowledge in
processor > to think that processors have to be compared at similar
frequencies,

Well you can thank that paticular very good chip engineer for the fact
Linux has the undocumented 4Mbyte page mode and the vm86 extensions that
Intel put in Appendix H, as well as some of the bug info Intel tried to
leak quietly out of the door.

Alan

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