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Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc

From: sob () academ com (Stan Barber)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:21:56 CST

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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