Re: i387/FPU init issues...

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Saturday 2008-05-03 19:39, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> great. So this NOP is indeed not generally known to all "P6 and later" 
>> CPUs. (the PII)
>
>Looks like. My analysis was wrong, as I got the P6 vs. PII/PIII
>confused :) Damn unintutive numbering, I thought ARM is worse but I'm
>not so sure anymore.

Guess that Intel named it Pentium II either because Hexium
("5"86:Pentium, "6"86:Hexium) would have been a strange name, or the
successor to the Pentium/586 was not that great an improvement.
Or something else? Always kept me wondering.
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