Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:42:46 -0500 | From | Rob Wilkens <> | Subject | Intel And Kenrel Programming (was: Nvidia is a great company) |
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On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 02:47, Chuck Wolber wrote: > > > As per buggy hardware, the software should _not_ have to support it. > > > The software should report that the hardware has a bug and stop. > > > Otherwise, you wind up writing really bad code for other hardware at > > > the same time that you're trying to work with one particular piece of > > > bad hardware. > > Good point! It's time we stopped supporting those Intel processors...
Ignorring the well popularized floating point bug in the pentium, to which there was a bug, are there many other bugs you run accross in the pentium while kernel programming?
-Rob
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