[13644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dannyman)
Wed Nov 12 16:58:17 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:46:37 -0600
From: Dannyman <djhoward@uiuc.edu>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971112154903.23057@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>; from Jay R. Ashworth on Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 03:49:03PM -0500
On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 03:49:03PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 10:42:30AM -0500, Michael McArthur wrote:
> > Does anybody know if this affects the Cyrix and AMD "Pentium
> > Clone" chips?
>
> I don't know that any tests have been announced yet, but I wouldn't
> expect 1) for it to take long or 2) a positive result.
My K5/133 laughed at the code, returning "Illegal instruction."
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