Intel pulls down Prescott PNI details

THE PRESCOTT PDF that Intel put on its web site was downed by Chipzilla yesterday, within 24 hours of a story we wrote on the Secret 13 Instructions of Louis Burns appearing for all to see. Louis Burns is rightly famous for telling us last week he wouldn't tell us what the 13 instructions were, only for Intel, five minutes later, to make a public presentation to all and sundry. Prescott is the 90 nonometer successor to the Intel Pentium 4.

But despite the PDF, which had been on the Intel web site since February 7th, now being a dead PDF, all is not lost. Once a genie is out of the bottle, as Louis knows only too well, it's a bugger of a task to get him or her back in through the bottleneck, a bit like a ship in a bottle.

There's a link to the PDF still on the sandpile.org site, and as these folk really know their stuff, there's some expert analysis on such new instructions as FISTTP, SSE3, as well as BURNS, SAID, GET, THAT PESKY, PDFSITE, DOWN and SHARPISH. (We made the last seven instructions up).

In all seriousness, that PDF contained hidden opcodes, such as SSE 3, which competitors must have been dying to get information about. µ

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