Subject: Re: Pentium Bug may cause system crash
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/14/1997 00:09:10
Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com> writes:

>
> I believe that mycroft has committed a fix for it
> that's similar to the Linux fix which apparently was similar to the
> BSDI fix.

That code is based on independent reverse-engineering of the BSDI code
(with bugs fixed), and has no relation to the Linux code.

And it is not a `fix'; it merely avoids the problem.