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Great job tracking down a hardware bug! That must be really exciting, and you get your name in the AMD errata I assume?

One of my comp sci professors found a bug in an Intel chip and got his name in the errata. I think that gives you +100 to nerd credibility :)

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+100 nerd cred indeed. That's something that trumps any normal bug.

He already had it. Matt Dillon is the business, and that's not a fake name of his. He quit FreeBSD-core because they chafed at his awesomeness, from which he went to start a FreeBSD fork, Dragonfly BSD, one of whose goals is process and state portability across CPUs and machines. He was also the technical stud behind Best Internet, one of the earliest and largest and highest-performance ISPs of the Mom&Pop era of the Internet (~93-97).

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