Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:06:59 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> To: Howard Lew <digital@www2.shoppersnet.com> Cc: Tony Kimball <alk@subtle.east.sun.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971108215031.23401A-100000@darkstar.home> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971108192731.14766A-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com>
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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Howard Lew wrote: > > For Windows users this bug should not be much of a problem unless viruses > start popping up taking advantage of the bug. For FreeBSD it is not very > comforting to know that any misbehaving user can lock up your shell > machine, but in a controlled environment this should not be a problem. > Possibly also systems where users are allowed to put executable CGI-invoked code on their web pages (although usually such users also have shell accounts). This could be bad for Intel. I think that there is a limited subset of Pentium owners which now have a *very* strong incentive to obtain replacement chips or go to alternate vendors (AMD or IDT). -- Charles Mott P.S. Have any FreeBSD users tried out the new IDT chip?
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