Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.unit0.net!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.newsgroupbanter.com!news.newsgroupbanter.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 09:13:00 -0600 From: ChrisMac Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware[Updated] Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 13:02:30 +0000 Message-ID: Organization: HardwareBanter.com User-Agent: X-Newsreader: X-Originating-IP: References: <84f3b4847fa8e18e5134fc41f0c44677@remailer.privacy.at> <8737542fxy.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <4e2739ea7175c4c59719d562d81f365b@remailer.privacy.at> Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-J8Rb9d0m6xccMJBDJJlmk3/BlZ1Fr7zttx2IJp1/DARiJGWM7IG9u9A0mCHqgp3SvT5QrNCXqa1VyOx!UWJVUeOJkL6PXfnkfT7DQCvJSDatxSk4kEniH/40xQ8xXJRZE0CIW2q5QzksbuYNibzf/XvGul+6!df/GL4vqEgi/dg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroupbanter.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Lines: 13 X-Original-Bytes: 1848 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4257659087 X-Received-Bytes: 2113 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.intel:515 Anonymous Remailer (austria);1104857 Wrote: > In article 8737542fxy.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk > Richard Kettlewell invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:- > > Anonymous nobody@remailer.paranoici.org writes:- > Pentium FDIV bug. > > Intel is historically sloppy.- > > Sloppy compared to what? Most (all?) CPUs have/had bugs.- > > not to the degree intel cpus do. modern intel is like cyrix. Is it that bad? I had no idea about this controversy so I'm thinking it's overblown. But maybe I'm wrong. -- ChrisMac