Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:02:19 -0500 | From | "J.P. Racine" <> | Subject | Re: Pentium LIVES |
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Wouldn't it have been the responsable thing for Intel to have done what you are doing in the first place? :)
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> I ran my test program on the 2.1.63 kernel. The fix works! I also > have a 64-bit random-number generator running on another machine > to check for other problems on the Pentium. Without the prefix, one > has to be careful because a loop-forever is possible. I fix this with > an alarm-clock timeout of the child. Basically, I have been executing > 64-bits of random garbage (with the known sequences excluded). This > has been running since 3-AM. I will run this for several weeks or > until another bad sequence is found. The machine it's running on is > presently not in use otherwise. > <SNIP>
J.P. Racine Osiris Technologies Inc. racinejp@osiris.net
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