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To: Paul Engel who wrote (39520)	11/7/1997 11:45:00 PM
From: Buy Low Sell Hi	Read Replies (2) of 186894

I agree with you about Collins, what he has done is irresponsible. Every would-be hacker who reads that article will want to try it out. His motives are obvious, unfortunately he has a little more to work with this time than the last "bug". I disagree with your analogy. If I spilled a cup of coffee on top of my CPU, I would not expect it to work, that is beyond the control of the processor. However, an invalid instruction should generate an interrupt, and not lockup the CPU. Period. If this instruction is accessible from user mode, it is a potentially serious bug, because operating systems like NT rely on this mechanism to remain stable, and because of guys like Robert Collins. IMO Intel needs to respond with a fix.

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