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Re:Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cut... by cratermoon on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:04AM (#45463792)
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
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Re:Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cut... by keanb on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:10AM (#45463869)
I don’t think anybody remembers this since that code never shipped in retail.
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Re:Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cut... by GeekyBear on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:42PM (#45466969)
It didn't ship (in the final retail version) only after the tech press of the day exposed what Microsoft had done.
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Re:Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cut... by cratermoon on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:47PM (#45467018)
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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