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M. Wiltink.a73A.telnr-015-138378 (wiltinkm@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl) wrote:

> As far as I know, but I don't know and that basically means nothing, 80x86
> processors have no code anywhere except maybe on the housing that enables you
> to tell the n'th chip produced from the (n+1)'th chip, or any other chip from
> the same line.

	I've been reading this thread and have declined to comment on
it so far mainly because I don't have a clue as to whether Intel does
anything like uniquely ID'ing each chip or not.  But if you stop to
think about it, it wouldn't make much sense.  EACH chip would have to
get stamped just a *little* bit differently from each other chip,
which would make mass production almost impossible and certainly send
production costs through the roof.

	Even putting it in some sort of ROM section later (to be
burned in at encasing time or something) would seem to me to be
extremely cost-ineffective.  But like I said, I really have no idea.


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