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Current mood:

amused

Hmmmm

Facebook's being irritable, like a small child, and won't let me post this.

From the Wikipedia article about MC Hammer's album U Can't Touch This:

On AMD K8-based microprocessors such as Athlon64 and Opteron, CPUID function 0x8FFFFFFF returns the string "IT'S HAMMER TIME" in registers EAX, EBX, ECX, and EDX. The K8 project was codenamed "Hammer" when in development at AMD.

Then supersat confirmed:

21:39:18 < supersat> lulz
21:39:19 < supersat> it works
21:40:19 < supersat> C:\...>hammertest.exe
21:40:19 < supersat> IT'S HAMMER TIME
21:40:19 < supersat> C:\...>