[rescue] who here is familiar with turbosparc 170's?

[Scott Newell]

>Another mistake in reporting, I think: the infamous Pentium "CPU ID".
>There was nothing new or magical about it, but it was blamed for
>everything from loss of privacy to the cost of tea in china.

I actually found it useful: when I first got my dual Intel box, I used the
processor ID to prove to myself that multithreaded code was running on both
CPUs.

Do any other general purpose processors include a unique serial number?


newell