> Presumably this is a so-called “chicken bit”.
replyFor those who are out of the loop:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/744840/
See also
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chicken_bit
(click on "quotations") for a list of scientific texts in which this term occurs.
Famously, the first GPS satellites had one of these, in case Einstein was wrong...
replyhttps://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-GPS-system-initially-resis...
He wasn't.
more like out of the coop
replyPretty much the definition of.
replySome optimization that turned out to be buggy had a disable bit in an undocumented register.
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