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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:57:34 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
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Subject: Re: Athlon /proc/cpuinfo anomaly [minor]
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hmm i've always been under the impression that those strings are hard
encoded into the CPU so even if we're on a motherboard/bios which doesn't
"support" that particular CPU we can do a cpuid and get the same string.

Regards,
	Zwane Mwaikambo


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