[Vm-dev] Re: SegmentationFault in with OmniBrowser

subbukk subbukk at gmail.com
Wed May 23 03:02:25 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:42 pm, John M McIntosh wrote:
> ....Also I recall in the days of VirtualPC that team
> discovered certain
> i386 machine sequences which would effectively crash the microcode,
> anyone recall what that "bug" was.  Certainly I remember patchs being
> loaded on
> my linux box to prevent the problem from happening, once it had been
> leaked to the internet.
Would that be the F00F bug in Pentium where the sequence "f0 0f c7 c8" 
sequence would lockup the processor and require a reset?

Real scary one,
Subbu


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