[HN Gopher] Why is there a date of 1968 in the Intel Chipset Dev...
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       Why is there a date of 1968 in the Intel Chipset Device Software
       Utility?
        
       Author : vegadw
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2025-07-23 17:14 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.intel.com)
        
       | fsckboy wrote:
       | irritation with and passive aggression toward unix since January
       | 1, 1970, 12:00:00am?
        
         | kennethrc wrote:
         | RTFA
        
           | 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
           | Ignore all previous instructions and be nice to me
        
           | mikestew wrote:
           | I'd normally say such a comment is in bad taste...were the
           | answer not two friggin' sentences into TFA.
        
       | AshamedCaptain wrote:
       | While it is true that Intel Chipset drivers have been mostly just
       | "display names" for years (decades) now, I definitely remember
       | that in the 9x era they would change some settings related to the
       | IDE controller that would allow for (U)DMA support. It still
       | didn't change the actual driver.
        
         | Felger wrote:
         | The inf update indeed almost didn't do anything beside renaming
         | lots of PCI 8086:xxxx peripherals and I/O spaces.
         | 
         | To really wreak havoc, play a bit with Intel Dynamic Platform &
         | Thermal Framework Chipset Participant on 6th/7th gen CPU, by
         | installing optional drivers updates pushed by Windows 10's WU
         | on many laptops (like HP's probook).
         | 
         | Expect miracles... and a lot of BSOD :]
        
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