Slashdot | Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License?
WindBourne writes “It appears to be that the U.S. house of Reps. want to classify Pentium 4 and above CPUs as weapons. This would mean that all these will require export licenses. Apparently, they have not heard about that the far east has developed large CPUs as well that are used in beowulf clusters.” According to the article, this clause is unlikely to appear in the final version — but stranger things have happened.
So that makes my G5 a… what? Weapon of Mass Computation?
weapons of math destruction
That would be those ancient Pentiums with the FDIV bug.
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