Re: Intel processor bugs

[Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>]

This has all the earmarks of another urban legend (akin to the 'sabatoged'
printers supposedly sold to Iraq---some reporter couldn't recognize an
April fools joke).

Anyhow the arithmetic problem in the first Pentiums was traced to missing
entries in a lookup table,not some exotic plot. It appeared under such
specialized conditions, there is no way at all to predictably influence to
behavior of an unknown program like a missile control.


jay

At 12:28 AM 3/5/99 +0200, jei@zor.hut.fi wrote:
>
>A friend of mine told me that the late Pentium bugs in Intel
>processors were included on purpose, because the Russians used them in
>their missiles, and the bugs were intended to sabotage their
>functioning.
>
>Does anyone have any news-article pointers about these accusations?
>

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