[H-GEN] Pentium bug

[Martin Pool]

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Wayne Meissner wrote:

> 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 ...

Or, better yet, write it into an HTML page and use the recently-announced
IE4 buffer overflow feature.

--
Martin

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