Re: Intel vs AMD64

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20040226133959.GA19254@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Not that it really matters that much --- but I'm curious to know why
> Intel made this decision?
> 
> It seems really dumb to make such differences when Intel is already
> sorely lagging behind their competitor here, I would think given the
> circumstances Intel would try to be as compatible as possible on all
> fronts.

This, and a whole bunch of the other "IA-32e differences", I think
really should be classified as "Intel bugs."

They really have more the flavour of errata than anything else...

	-hpa
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