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Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Wed Nov 12 11:29:00 1997

From: sob@academ.com (Stan Barber)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:21:56 CST
To: Michael McArthur <mcarthur@ans.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: support@bsdi.com

I tested the test program (using both signed and unsigned char) on
Pentium Pros running BSD/OS 3.0 and got "illegal instruction, core dumped"
and no hang. On regular Pentiums running the same OS, I got the hang.


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