On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:45:55PM -0000, Noel Carrol mentioned:
> Indeed! One article I read had Intel saying that the information was
> released to all relevant persons in good time. In any case its a patchable
> issue and I believe those exact patches are being prepared, and are even
> avalilable in some cases, as we speak.
I think the problem being that they didn't know who the relevant people
were, and told the wrong person. Either way, a machine barfing because it
didn't know about the CPUID's is strange...
Kate
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