WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug

Tim Iverson iverson@lionheart.com
Sat Nov 8 14:48:00 GMT 1997


I'd bet that the reason it's anonymous is that it's an Intel employee.
Probably the one that argued to release the bug information in the meeting
they had on this topic ... ;)


- Tim Iverson
  iverson@lionheart.com


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| To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
| Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
| From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
| Date: 08 Nov 1997 12:12:22 -0600
| 
| Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> writes:
| > There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following 
| > code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no 
...
| Demand a new CPU?  I'm not sure what Intel will do about this one.
| 
| Who is this and how long did you look for this?  Perhaps Cyrix
| or AMD :-?  I think that finding this would be a pretty momentous
| thing, I'm not sure I would go anonymous.
| 
| -- 
| Corey Minyard               Internet:  minyard@acm.org
|   Work: minyard@nortel.ca       UUCP:  minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com
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