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"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:

> So how come NetWare and NT can detect this at run time, and we have to
> use a .config option to specifiy it?  Come on guys.....

Linux detects this as well -

However this is not about detection, but optimizations.

Optimizations e.g. for xeon could keep a K6/2 from booting!

It should probably default to something safe like 386 though...


jjs


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