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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?