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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)"  <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:57:35 -0800
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Subject: Re: [9fans] tech writer humor
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> the madt table or the mp tables reflect a snaphot of *all*
> the i/o apics and lapics in the system at the time when bios handed
> control over to the operating system (sic.).

No it doesn't. That's the bug in the BIOS -- it screws up building
the table.  I have an Intel mini-ITX board sitting in a box because
it's unuseable due to this bug.