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cratermoon
3 months ago
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Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name h...
Or Win 3.1 looking for whatever shibboleth was in MS-DOS and popping up a scary-looking message if it found another DOS?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
keanb
3 months ago
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I don’t think anybody remembers this since that code never shipped in retail.
GeekyBear
3 months ago
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It didn't ship (in the final retail version) only after the tech press of the day exposed what Microsoft had done.
cratermoon
3 months ago
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It did ship in the final retail version, in way. It was disabled, but the code was still there, and a flag was all that was needed to enable it.
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