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To: gnuman who wrote (47248)	1/25/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 1571040

Gene, Re: "What I was referring to was PIII SPECIFIC software. As for PIII sensitive software, I think you and Jim are right, it's probably built into Win2K and is invoked when a PIII is sensed. (It also seems natural that WinTel would collaborate on this ID initiative). But what does it mean to the average user? That's what's interesting." I don't believe there will be any PIII only software(not even for the KNI). It would be a feature which can be turned off/on based on what CPU is running. This is the case for quite some time even before Intel put in the 87 floating point unit. You just write something which detect this and use it if it is available. It will be the same for KNI, 3DNow or this CPU id thing. For the customer, it is really no big deal. If Microsoft cannot identify the CPU in particular, it has its own way to identify a particular machine. Many software today is 'faking' this feature and this CPU id would just make this easier. After all, you are supposed to be using a copy of software on one particular machine. Gary