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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:43:04PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> AMD even ship a special program / driver / hack / whatever that
> synchronizes the TSC on multi-core systems.

For MS-Windows.  Because MSFT and Windows programmers cannot manage
to DTRT.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)