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by sidkshatriya 68 days ago
> It seems like a worthwhile study if you want to know what CPU to buy to play specific old games that use bus locks. Games that will never be fixed.

Fair.

> old games that use bus locks

Yes the bus locks here are unintentional since LOCK on cache line is not sufficient, the CPU falls back to locking the bus.