From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 9 09:41:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA24310 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 09:41:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA24302 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 09:41:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mouth@ibm.net) Received: from slip129-37-53-124.ca.us.ibm.net (slip129-37-53-124.ca.us.ibm.net [129.37.53.124]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA92434 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:41:05 GMT From: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 18:42:20 GMT Message-ID: <3466035d.2461408@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> References: <199711090908.DAA05745@argus.tfs.net> In-Reply-To: <199711090908.DAA05745@argus.tfs.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA24304 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Nov 1997 03:08:14 -0600 (CST), Jim Bryant wrote: >this is going to be a real nightmare for intel... how many pentiums >are out there, and i'm begionning to notice a lot of pentium-specific >stuff out there now. the instruction seqquence in question seems to >me to be a type that will be in widespread use in the very near >future. Now I'm really glad I bought a bunch of 486 processors and VLB motherboards on closeout. :-) John