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To: Windsock who wrote (77376)	10/27/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: Michael DaKota	Respond to of 1577319

"Please explain why the Intel hardware works and the AMD hardware does not work if it is a software problem" you are missing the point here. It's not "AMD hardware" but "K6-x" cpu's not working. The reason is that the before mentioned critical timing on op codes in the usb driver is screwing up. Intel cpu's have something in the order of 4x longer latency on a certain instruction (Really, dont bite me here, im terrible on the inner workings of cpu's ;)than the k6 line, thus causing the timing errors. AMD fixed this by also implementing that very long and slow latency on that particular instruction in their k7 series , albeit not because it improved the overall design, but for compatibilities sake. If anyone has a more advanced and detailed explenation (with the "instruction" named properly etc;) , please do, I forgot the exact nature of the problem ages ago.