North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc

  • From: Michael McArthur
  • Date: Wed Nov 12 11:17:21 1997 
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Michael 'Moose' Dinn wrote:

> > 	Does anybody know if this affects the Cyrix and AMD "Pentium
> > Clone" chips?
> > 
> 
> It certainly affects the Cyrix - both P166+ and P200+. Don't know about the
> Cyrix MX and the AMD tho.
> > -- 

	That's the problem -- it isn't a "bug", just an exploitable
instruction set that Cyrix, AMD, et al have been faithfully copying.

	For that matter, the 486 instruction set is a subset of the
Pentium instruction set.  Does this affect the 486/386 etc..?