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On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> intel stinks, period.
> First the Pentium FPU bug, then the PII and PPro FPU bug (anyone besides
> me know about this?) and now any server out there running shell is
> vulnerable to DOS from some dumbass with gcc and the ability to paste from
> a webpage into thier telnet terminal?
> 
> AMD has a bug with systems with greater than 64 megs of ram

 This bug has been fixed with AMD chips. It was fixed around september
15th and if you have a broken AMD chip, AMD will be more then happy to fix
the situation.

> With Cyrix chips you're lucky if the damn thing doesn't smolder through
> your motherboard.
> 
> -Alfred
>