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Subject: Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:19:55AM +0200, Oliver Herold wrote:
> This is nice, but some people are experiencing this certain kind of problem.
> Maybe you have got the latest bios already :-)

Are people aware that there is no BIOS in a CPU, and that this is
referring to processor microcode?

Stepping numbers usually indicate different "versions" of a processor,
if people want to compare those.

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