Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD64 | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:44:00 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <20040226133959.GA19254@dingdong.cryptoapps.com> By author: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Not that it really matters that much --- but I'm curious to know why > Intel made this decision? > > It seems really dumb to make such differences when Intel is already > sorely lagging behind their competitor here, I would think given the > circumstances Intel would try to be as compatible as possible on all > fronts.
This, and a whole bunch of the other "IA-32e differences", I think really should be classified as "Intel bugs."
They really have more the flavour of errata than anything else...
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