In article <19980624084215.33175@antioche.lip6.fr>,
	Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
> I'm not sure why they didn't implememt intel's protocol, maybe it's a
> licencing issue.

I suppose it is a matter of cost. They have to sell their CPUs cheaper than
Intel and they sell less of them. So they don't spend money for developing
features which only very few people need.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/