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  1. To: mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu
  2. Cc: current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
  3. Subject: Re: "GenuineIntel" spacing ??? 
  4.              <9408030821.AA07605@goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu> 
  5. From: "John F. Woods" <jfw@ksr.com>
  6. Sender: owner-current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu
  7.  
  8. > No.  Only fairly recent Intel 486s have the `cpuid' instruction which
  9. > returns that string.  Older ones do not, so the kernel can't print it
  10. > out.
  11. > I'm starting to consider removing that altogether.
  12.  
  13. Or you could append the string "(too bad)".
  14.  
  15. :-)