Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:58:26 +0000

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> It's silly to count all devices which have software accessable
> serial number. No one of this can't be 100% reliable used to identify
> your machine like PIII psn just because all of it not obligatory. You
> can not using DDC monitor, or ethernet card, or IDE disk and so on.

By the same argument, you might not be using a P3. Maybe not an Intel chip
at all. Maybe not even IA32 architecture.

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