Re: Hardware for new Linux box

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From: John Winters
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:00

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In article <m2d7tdjyml.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk>,
Graham Murray  <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In uk.comp.os.linux, john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters) writes:
>
>> If all the buyers want the lower specced chips then that's how
>> they'll be labelled and priced.  This is why Intel have been so keen
>> of late to build in mechanisms to ensure you only run chips at the
>> speed you paid for.
>
>If all of the chips come from the same fabrication process with the
>same die, how can the "chip" know at what speed it is allowed (has
>been rated) to run? Or is this something put into the carrier (which
>the silicon can read) rather than in the silicon itself?

I believe the latter, although I don't know the fine detail.

John
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From: john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters)
Subject: Re: Hardware for new Linux box
Date: 1999/11/14
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