From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 7 16:54:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA05632 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:54:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from plaut.de (ns.plaut.de [194.39.177.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA05624 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:54:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from afuchs@totum.plaut.de) Received: from totum.plaut.de (totum.plaut.de [194.39.177.9]) by plaut.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA00763; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 01:54:28 +0100 Received: from localhost (afuchs@localhost) by totum.plaut.de (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07327; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 01:54:29 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 01:54:29 +0100 (MET) From: alex fuchsstadt To: Jim Shankland cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) In-Reply-To: <199711080035.QAA28594@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Jim Shankland wrote: > Does anyone know if Intel has responded to this problem? Sorry to > be repeating myself, but to my mind this is a far more severe bug > than the obscure floating point bug several years ago that knocked > billions off Intel's market cap. If they did, in fact, quietly fix > the bug at some stepping without telling anyone, that would appear to > be a return to the modus operandi that they so publicly abandoned > after the FP brouhaha. > > Jim Shankland > Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. > Apropos Intel, what about the FreeBSD Alpha-stuff? Time to change...? Alexander Fuchsstadt -------------------- R/3-Basis Plaut Software GmbH