[petascale]

Presumably the launch date, Intel lists launch dates for all of their processors on ark.intel.com [1]

5 years is Haswell, so Haswell and newer should get the microcode fix. A 3 year old computer is likely to have a CPU no more than 4 years old, but you can look it up to verify. (Both Windows and Linux can show the CPU model, and Intel's Ark site gives the release date.)

[1] https://ark.intel.com/products/series/75023/4th-Generation-I...

[flukus]

Thanks. My work computer is in the legacy section (release Q4'11), so it looks like I might be getting a new one. A shame really, it's still mostly adequate, the only thing making it age are the continued bloat from Visual Studio.