I was looking through some status information on my web host, and I found out that doesn't have a processor. No, instead, it has a AMD Athlon(tm) Prosussor... How could something like this slip through AMD's QA?
Even funnier was a friend telling me that their server had an AMD Athlon(tm) Proswssor :P.

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  1. Avatar for Peter Nic said:
    The spelling error is not AMD's -- the name of the CPU is re-set by the motherboard BIOS. The two spelling errors are apparently defects in the BIOS of the computers you are seeing this in. AMD CPUs come with a very generic name in their CPUID; AMD requires the BIOS/OS to set the more specific name based on a number of factors. I think those are bugs/pranks, have not heard of problems with those BIOS/motherboards otherwise. (Funny, granted :)
  2. Avatar for Daniel15 said:
    Thanks for the clarification, Peter Nic ;) Even if it is a BIOS problem, the BIOS manufacturer should have picked it up. It is definately present on a number of systems. A Google search for "AMD Athlon(tm) Prosussor" has 612 results, and "AMD Athlon(tm) Proswssor" has 286 results :P

    I encountered this on a dedicated server from Layered Technologies, by the way.
  3. Avatar for anonymous said:
    My pc has a proswssor, how I stumbled upon this thread
  4. Avatar for Amd said:
    I searched for \'Amd Athlon Xp Processor\' at Google and found your post named \'’t spell! at Daniel15’s Blog\' in search results. Quite interesting to read.
  5. Avatar for elbbit said:
    elbbit@moon ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name
    model name : AMD Athlon(tm) proswssor
    elbbit@moon ~ $

    Me too.

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