🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1990Jul20.011633.1686@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>,
johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>In article <315@bally.Bally.COM> you write:
>>I spoke with an engineer at SCO (whose remains unnamed) who sadly
>>told me that there was no way to tell an 80386 from an 80486.
>
>Had anyone at SCO bothered to read the Intel i486 Programmer's Reference,
>they would have found several straightforward ways to tell the difference.
>The Intel manual even gives sample code.
>
>>SCO wanted to market a higher-priced version of Xenix for 80486, but they
>>could find no way to detect the difference.
>
>Sounds like it's just as well they couldn't figure out how.  What a crock
>that would have been.

Come on!  Give the SCO bashing a rest, will you.  

Now it's unsubstantiated rumors and snide asides.
How low will you people go?

-- Erik
   (erik@sgi.com)