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Name: Johnny
Date: February 14, 2001 at 03:11:37
Subject: Re: FOSTER CPUID
In Reply To: Re: FOSTER CPUID by
me too on February 13, 2001 at 21:11:00
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| I don't get it.
|
| Masking out the MSB of family=7=0111 would still be 0111=7.

Yes, but family 7 was already assigned to Itanium. Therefore, Pentium 4
had to be assigned family 0fh so that Windows NT would identify a family
7 cpu (lower values were not acceptable for obvious reasons).

Check out the story at:
http://www.linux.com/hardware/newsitem.phtml?sid=1&aid=11457

Johnny


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