From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 11 23:18:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA08083 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.i-connect.net (qmailr@thor.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA08073 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1688 invoked by uid 4028); 12 Sep 1997 06:18:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:03:11 -0700 (PDT) From: ron@cts.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (former?) Pentium secrets Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have heard the stories about Intel putting special, unpublished instructions into the Pentium for (guess who?) our buddies at MS (here I go again:-) I understand that this information became available to the rest of the software community later (hence the microtime capability). Can anyone tell me where I can obtain this info? Ron McDaniels ---------------------------------- E-Mail: ron@cts.com Date: 09/11/97 Time: 23:03:11 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------