Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 22:19:12 03/04/03
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On March 04, 2003 at 23:06:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 04, 2003 at 19:22:50, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>Nonsense. 486 is all you have to support to be compliant with the full ISA. > >You remind me of my son. :) > >To wit: when the "walk" light comes on, he is going to walk across the >street because he _has_ the right of way. I keep telling him that he is >right of course, and one day he might end up _dead_ right. > >I personally look before walking regardless of the color of the light. I look >before I leave when a light turns green, to be sure some idiot is not going to >run the light and make _me_ "dead right". > >And that is where we are here. You want to advertise that a machine is >equivalentto intel, but faster and cheaper, feel free. And if you want to stand >on the fine print "but if a program uses cmov without checking the CPUID >processor capability bits it is a bad piece of software." But the _customers_ >will think the machine is broken, and _they_ are the ones you are trying to >market to. You end up right. Dead right. > >There is "right" and there is "right". When you don't check the CPUID flags before using certain instructions, you are the one walking across the street without checking for traffic.
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