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Re:AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cach... by bitL on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:42PM (#12321850)
http://techreport.com/news/29611/win10-will-be-the-only-wind...
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Re:AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cach... by clevernickname on Friday August 19, 2016 @08:17PM (#12324402)
What is the practical implication of this? In China Windows XP on modern hardware is still by far the dominant OS, so I would be very surprised if any of the major manufacturers would stop releasing drivers for that, let alone 7.
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Re:AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cach... by gruez on Friday August 19, 2016 @04:10PM (#12323103)
The article states that it only applies to new CPUs/APUs. I also vaguely remember that Intel's doing the same as well
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Re:AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cach... by bitL on Saturday August 20, 2016 @05:09AM (#12325797)
> only applies to new CPUs/APUs

i.e. Zen

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