[rescue] who here is familiar with turbosparc 170's?

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, James Lockwood wrote:

> They also have an interesting exploitable CPU implementation bug: any
> userland program can hard-hang the system.  The code necessary to do this
> is not generated by a compiler except under rare circumstances, but it is
> possible.  There is no known workaround.

> I find it interesting that this received so little press compared with
> (relatively) minor errata in the x86 family.

I've found it interesting too that the similar bug in the UltraSparc 1
chips got so little press.

--Kurt