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From: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:59:45 +0000
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On 19 Apr 97 at 22:04, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:


> On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:

> > > No, not at all.  I've seen pieces of Code that do all sorts of nasty things.
> > > (winNT not running on anything but an intel processor, no reason why, it
> > > just won't...)...

> > Huh? Runs fine on my AMD 486DX4/100!
 
> NT will disable the caches on a Cyrix 6x86, which renders it next to
> useless...

Ah, right. Those newfangled up to date CPUs!

Still, "not running on anything but an intel processor" is a bit
of an exaggeration, then!
 
> Pierre Phaneuf

ABW
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Alaric B. Williams (alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk)

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