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Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs have nasty hyper-threading bug

Ian 55

You mean the humble..

.. 'couldn't even multiply two 16 bit numbers and get the right 32 bit result when first released 80386?'

I had one of the '16 bit only'-stamped ones in an old PC. Windows 3.x was coded to watch out for them.

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