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From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> No.  The "cheap" [CPUs] are incapable of running other than NT PALcode.

Actually, I've heard rumours that the current NT CPUs don't have
the fusable link which fixes the what's-it-called page mapping
blown. However, you still get them on motherboards that won't run
SRM.

Bit annoying the way you can get an NT CPU for $1300 and the DU
one is well over $4000, isn't it?

cjs

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