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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal)
To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 07:24:13 +0000 (GMT)
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> can't to my knowledge, unless you are going to have your OS's check each
> opcode before it is executed (for CS people out there that is
> O(really-nasty) ;).

You could always use a two processor box and burn one processor to
watchdog the other.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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