Replying to a message of Peter Magnusson to Scott McNay:
SM>> It's 100% compatible
PM> Way... I didn't know they EVER made a processor
PM> 100% compatible with another. There's often
PM> some small diffrences in undocummented or
PM> even docummented instructions & features, right?
Any differences in teh instructions are bugs..
PM> I mean, don't most cpu-detections that don't use
PM> CPUID use that?
PM> No expert on the subject, just seen a few code
PM> samples and glimbsed (wrong spelling?) at www.x86.org
PM> (not that I claim to have quoted them in any sense)
SM>> I don't recall which. Anyway, the part that surprised me
SM>> what that IBM made PS/2's that used an 808x CPU.
PM> Oh, that must have been a long time ago ... ?
PM> [peter]
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