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Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:42:38AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:50:07AM -0700, Andrew Kinney wrote:
> > > > On 24 Apr 2003, at 9:56, Anthony Schneider wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > > this doesn't look very pOwErFuL. :(
> > > > > 
> > > > > > CPU: AMD ClawHammer(tm) (3.14-MHz Hammer-class CPU)
> > > > > 
> > > > > -Anthony.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > That's the low budget "crawlhammer" version.  Someone's reading 
> > > > the CPUID wrong!  ;-) 
> > > 
> > > <sigh>
> > > 
> > > No, somebody not allowed by an NDA to display the actual cpu clock 
> > > frequency.
> > 
> > And I would have thought it would have been obvious.. :-/
> 
> I would have thought so too... :-/
> 
> Maybe have it display: 3.1415926535897 MHz?

Don't get me started... :-)  I still have the first ~50 or so digits
memorized.  Or even worse, I could put a pi calculator in the kernel. :-)

Cheers,
-Peter
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Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5