[H-GEN] Pentium bug

[Wayne Meissner]

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Ben Walding wrote:

> Well once again intel has come through with the goods.
>
> executing the opcode, 0xc8c70ff0
> will result the lock up pentium / pentium MMX machines.
> Implementing this in C is a trivial one liner.

Yes, and since it is a chip bug, it locks up the machine cold, no matter
what OS its running (tested on NT and linux).  It seems to only affect
pentiums, all the 486's I tried produced an "Illegal instruction", same
with Cyrix. P6 and PII are supposedly also ok.

Yet another interesting ActiveX applet to write ...



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