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Date:      Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:30:15 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net>
To:        perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) a fix?
Message-ID:  <199711101930.NAA08588@argus.tfs.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971110133159.20797A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> from Alfred Perlstein at "Nov 10, 97 01:33:30 pm"

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RECALL   RECALL   RECALL

In reply:
> i don't know the logistics of doing this but what about an adapter that
> sits between the pentium and the socket that snoops for that code coming
> though the instruction line and mangles it into something different?
> 
> would that work? is it feasable?
> 
> -Alfred
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > can't to my knowledge, unless you are going to have your OS's check each
> > > opcode before it is executed (for CS people out there that is
> > > O(really-nasty) ;).
> > 
> > You could always use a two processor box and burn one processor to
> > watchdog the other.  8-).
> > 
> > 
> > 					Terry Lambert
> > 					terry@lambert.org
> > ---
> > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> > or previous employers.
> > 
> 
> 


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