From: broche AT bensonlaw DOT com (Bryon Roche)
Subject: Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
10 Nov 1997 20:11:45 -0800
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Scott Warner wrote:
> 
> So, the Pentium *should* recognize the instruction as illegal and crash the
> program, but instead the program crashes the OS?  However did this get
> discovered, and are there more instances?  It occurs to me that no
> processor is safe from these kinds of things.

It should do this, but it doesn't. There may or may not be more
instances of this, but you know Intel...

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