[5518] in bugtraq
Re: Intel Pentium Bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Gaudet)
Sat Nov 8 01:27:58 1997
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 19:27:49 -0800
Reply-To: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-bugtraq@ARCTIC.ORG>
From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-bugtraq@ARCTIC.ORG>
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Just an idle thought ... since this instruction includes the LOCK prefix
perhaps the processor dies while still signalling LOCK... maybe a modified
watchdog card could notice this situation and generate an NMI, yadda
yadda.
Dean