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Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:49:03 -0500
On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 10:42:30AM -0500, Michael McArthur wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:I don't know about PentiumPro and Pentium II. The risk? Every pentium based server with user access for executing programs can be crashed using this code sequence. Not to mention Trojan Horses or Active-X controls.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. (IE: I think the other chips are probably not broken.) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra () baylink com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592
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