Same price as the cheapest iPhone I think. It tells you something.
It's a reference to A Fire Upon The Deep, an SF novel by Vernor Vinge. One way to describe it is that a superintelligent computer virus tries to take over the galaxy. It is great, try a web search.
Is that something like a "class II perversion"? For example the Straumli Blight.
What does the CPUID instruction say?