Re: A bit of a Dickey move
I remember that the early Sparc T CPUs from Oracle / Sun had eight cores that shared an FPU. Never heard of anyone suing over that.
The first Nahelem architecture Xeons were "deceptive" over many SSE registers they had. In 64 bit mode all the registers were there as billed, but the number mysteriously dropped by half in 32 bit mode. It made 64 bit mode code look terrific compared to 32 bit, but only because of this artificial limitation. Of course this was all written down in the data sheets...
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