From: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Subject: Re: Pentium bug 15 Nov 1997 16:21:26 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: root Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, root wrote: > For Linux users, it may be interesting to know that Linus Torwalds has added > a patch to Linux that solves the newly discovered bug with a software > correction as proposed by Intel. Last I heard the two patches/fixes available had major pitfalls. From what I've seen, I'd agree. The Linux fix is an ugly hack, and the BSDI one (last I saw), forgot all about vm86 mode. *yich*. I hope (but doubt) that MS will incorporate a better fix into 95 NT and 98. - alex - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".