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		bonzini 82 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 > around the time that Microsoft started reusing the NT kernel in the consumer versions of Windows. Much later. Windows XP used the NT kernel in 2001, whereas Conficker was in 2008.

aidenn0 82 days ago [–]

I had a copy of an XP service-pack burned to a CD because an unpatched install in the dorms at college would be infected by a worm (maybe Nimda?) faster than you could download the patches, thus requiring a fully offline install.

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