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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Elmer who wrote (77006)10/26/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: Steve Porter   of 1577360
 
Elmer,

The patch, (Write combing) for Windows NT Sp5 is merely a patch which turns on write combining in the Athlon. Athlon normally start with write combining (to my knowledge) turned off at boot to be overly conservative. This flag merely toggles a bit in the CPU to turn on write combining.

Steve
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