Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:58:26 +0000 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: [patch] PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support, disable serial-#, 2.2.2 |
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> It's silly to count all devices which have software accessable > serial number. No one of this can't be 100% reliable used to identify > your machine like PIII psn just because all of it not obligatory. You > can not using DDC monitor, or ethernet card, or IDE disk and so on.
By the same argument, you might not be using a P3. Maybe not an Intel chip at all. Maybe not even IA32 architecture.
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