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To: Scumbria who wrote (59513)5/24/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: dumbmoney  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1584895
 
Amazing! And all I thought you would need was a configuration register bit which marks the FPU reservation station as unavailable.

The problem with this theory is that the K7 FPU pipes are specialized. If you turned one off the FPU would not work at all.

Still, the answer must be something along these lines.



To: Scumbria who wrote (59513)5/24/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1584895
 
SCUMbria - re: "Amazing! And all I thought you would need was a configuration register bit which marks the FPU reservation station as unavailable."

Nope.

It's a lot more complicated than that.

Paul


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