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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Geoff C. Marshall wrote:

> Pardon,
>         What is a F00F error ? 

F00F, or ``the F00F bug'' refers to a bug in the Intel Pentium chips that
allows userland programs to lock up the CPU. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major