> To: melblinux@luv.asn.au
> Subject: New Intel Pentium bug?
> From: Nathan Bailey <Nathan.Bailey@cc.monash.edu.au>
> Date: Sun, 09 Nov 97 17:29:35 +1100
> Anyone heard anything about this?
>
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> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 10:45:23 +1100 (EST)
> From: Kai OYang <Kai.Oyang@fcit.monash.edu.au>
> Subject: WARNING: New Intel Pentium bug...
>
> [... snip ...]
> Recently a new Pentium bug has been floating around in comp.sys.intel.
> It's a microcode bug that will hang a machine for all Intel Pentiums, even
> in user mode, requiring a hard reset. I've tested it on P5-233MMX/P5-120 with
> NT, DOS, Win95, Solaris for Intel, all hung solid. As I don't have an AMD /
> Cyrix / P2 machine so don't know if they are also affected.
> [... snip ...]
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>
>
Dr.Dobb's Journal August 1997 has an artical " inside the pentuim II
math bug by RobertR. Collins -rcollins@x86.org" and included on the accompanying CD
is a programme (FISTBUG.EXE plus source code) to test for
the bug on your system.