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To: Joe NYC who wrote (40208)	11/13/1997 12:26:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Jozef, Re: Some of these systems are designed for multiuser Such as ? One thing you are right is that you are describing "hypothetical situation". When we come to situation for real, you tend to stop there. Remember our talk about the 'sub-1000' ? I asked you to analyse the situation and come up with some 'ball-park' and you never did that. BTW, Intel did tell us that they captured 90% of this so called 'sub-1000' market. Gary

To: Joe NYC who wrote (40208)	11/13/1997 5:57:00 AM
From: Fridrik Skulason	Respond to of 186894

>This bug is less of a problem in Pentium because Pentiums are mainly >used by single end-users. If the end-user computer dies, it is >usually not a disaster. But if your NT, Novell or Unix server dies, >it can cause serious problems. Eh... If any administrator allows his users to run any malicious code they want directly on the server, he might have much worse problems than somebody crashing the server with the F0 bug. At least the crash is easy to notice .... what if the user instead runs a "data diddler" virus, for example ? One that randomly flips a bit every now and then ? The point is that any sensible andministrator will not allow users to run any unauthorized programs directly on a critical server, partly to eliminate the chance of viruses or Trojans doing any damage, but this policy will also keep out any malicious code that attempts to crash the server with the F0 bug.