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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
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In message <17029.25466.587442.577866@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman
 writes:
><<On Sat, 14 May 2005 04:20:19 +0200, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> said:
>
>> The political problem is that if all operating systems do that,
>> Intel has a pretty dud feature on their hands, and they are not
>> particularly eager to accept that fact.
>
>Intel already had a pretty dud feature on their hands; just ask anyone
>in the architecture community (probably including those who work for
>Intel).

While quite likely true, that is not really the issue here.

The question is what it will take to make Intel warn their customers.

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