Subject: Re: "GenuineIntel" spacing ???
To: Peter Galbavy <peter@alice.wonderland.org>
From: Brian D. Carlstrom <bdc@ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/31/1994 17:14:29
>>> Peter Galbavy writes:
> I only saw an >0.9a i386 install recently, and I like the bit
> about the type of CPU... but is there supposed to be a space in
> the sring "GenuineIntel" at boot time.
> This is so trivial an issue that I wasn't going to raise a pr :)
from what i hear from mycroft, the cpu returns a 12 byte identification
(manuafacturer) string. intels return (coverted to ascii):
GenuineIntel
000000000111
123456789012
which is the 12 bytes exactly
-bri
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