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SubjectRe: To Intel or not to Intel, that is the question. (And hardware compatability)
Hi,

> Of the x86 family, I do not know of any CPU with a faster FPU than Intel.
> Note that the Cyrix chips have at least one bug of their own, having
> nearly the same affect on the chip as the Pentium exploit. The workaround
> is not as effective as the Pentium one, nor is it built into the kernel.

The workaround need not to be built in the kernel as it's sufficient
to use the setcx86 utility to do the job.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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