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From: Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>
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> > As per buggy hardware, the software should _not_ have to support it.  
> > The software should report that the hardware has a bug and stop.  
> > Otherwise, you wind up writing really bad code for other hardware at
> > the same time that you're trying to work with one particular piece of
> > bad hardware.

Good point! It's time we stopped supporting those Intel processors...


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