Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 16:47:38 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> Cc: afuchs@totum.plaut.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <3463B6AA.446B9B3D@whistle.com> References: <199711080035.QAA28594@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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Jim Shankland wrote: > > Does anyone know if Intel has responded to this problem? Sorry to > be repeating myself, but to my mind this is a far more severe bug > than the obscure floating point bug several years ago that knocked > billions off Intel's market cap. If they did, in fact, quietly fix > the bug at some stepping without telling anyone, that would appear to > be a return to the modus operandi that they so publicly abandoned > after the FP brouhaha. > > Jim Shankland > Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. cnet have just reported the bug.. they said that intel said "no comment"
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