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To: Buy Low Sell Hi who wrote (39542)11/8/1997 12:42:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (3) of 186894
 
BLSH - Pentium BS BUG

Any processor can easily be crashed.

If a program intentionally places a bogus memory address on the stack, and then pops that value into the Code Segment Register, the processor will crash - attempting to execute code from some bogus location.

Force feeding a known illegal opcode into the processor is just that - forcing an intentional crash.

Processors are machines - not bullet proof automatons. You try and screw them up and you'll screw them up.

Paul
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