From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 07:12:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA05691 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thought.calbbs.com (thought.calbbs.com [207.71.213.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA05685 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.calbbs.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA01998; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:12:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Buchanan X-Sender: brian@thought.calbbs.com To: ron@cts.com cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (former?) Pentium secrets In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 ron@cts.com wrote: > I have heard the stories about Intel putting special, unpublished instructions 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? http://www.x86.org has a good ammount of information on the x86 family, including undocumented features of the chips. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Buchanan brian@wasteland.calbbs.com Fight SPAM! Join CAUCE at http://www.cauce.org "Using Windows NT for a server because it's easy to use is like hiring Miss America as your accountant because she's cute." 4.4BSD UNIX for the masses; just say NO to Microsoft! http://www.freebsd.org