Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc

[Michael McArthur <mcarthur () ans net>]

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..?