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New PIII: SMP In, Serial Number Out
florin writes: "This article from GamePC talks about the new cB0 stepping of the Intel Pentium III processor. The FC-PGA format has finally been validated for use in multiprocessor systems. After much confusion about this issue, it is good to see 'Now Dual Processor Capable' clearly marked on the retail box. Another item of interest is that Intel has gone ahead and stripped the controversial processor serial number feature from this new PIII, like they announced they would do on their upcoming Willamette CPU. " -
Microsoft programmers on porting to X
florin writes "In this story a Microsoft programmer details the issues that showed up when they wrote the Solaris port of Internet Explorer. They used existing Win32-to-Unix porting tools from other vendors to get most of it running. The 3 page article talks about dealing with matters like click to focus, fonts, COM and using the registry on a Unix machine."