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SubjectRe: [from bugtraq] SCO provides Microcode fixes on Intel platforms
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kris@koehntopp.de said:
> The following message is an SCO PTF document posted to bugtraq. It is
> about SCO Unix fixing PPro and Pentium II microcode when the kernel
> comes up.

> It does not say anything about Pentium or Pentium MMX microcode fixes.

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According to http://www.sandpile.org/80x86/mcupdate.shtml , the Pentium doesn't have the microcode update facility:

> It has been asked, whether the well-known Pentium FDIV bug could have been
> fixed that way. Well, even if the Pentium would have had some microcode
> update feature (which it did not), ...
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