[13610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael McArthur)
Wed Nov 12 11:12:57 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:05:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael McArthur <mcarthur@ans.net>
To: "Michael 'Moose' Dinn" <dinn@moose.webworks.ca>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971112114753.11381@moose.webworks.ca>
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Michael 'Moose' Dinn wrote:
> > Does anybody know if this affects the Cyrix and AMD "Pentium
> > Clone" chips?
> >
>
> It certainly affects the Cyrix - both P166+ and P200+. Don't know about the
> Cyrix MX and the AMD tho.
> > --
That's the problem -- it isn't a "bug", just an exploitable
instruction set that Cyrix, AMD, et al have been faithfully copying.
For that matter, the 486 instruction set is a subset of the
Pentium instruction set. Does this affect the 486/386 etc..?
