> Well, with this, we could make an entire Processor toplevel category, then
> categorize it by something arbitrary (x86, DEC, whatever)... under x86, put:
>
> Intel, AMD, IBM, Cyrix. or 386, 486, Pentium, PPro, PII.
>
> Then list each processor for that company and it's associated optimizations
> and/or bugfixes... I'm not dealing with non-intel processors just yet..
> Don't know enough about them.
Why? It is pretty easy to recognise all x86 varieties (other than the
early 486 clones) at run time and simply Do The Right Thing without
asking the user daft questions about whether they have microcode
bug #564 or working frozzle optimizations. Most users won't even
know what is under their CPU fan never mind what the hell you're
talking about!
Mike
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