SPUG: That "pmd" command Damian used

Andrew Sweger andrew at sweger.net
Sat Jul 20 17:46:24 CDT 2002


On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Asim Jalis wrote:

> If the demo had been on a Pentium I might have suspected that he was
> using the Pentium division bug to somehow create a time-like loop on
> the chip.

ROFL. I could imagine the press release. Intel develops time-like loop on
a single chip. But alas, it was a PowerPC.

And for the distributed theory some of you are thinking of, there is no
network connection available in the auditorium unless you've got a Token
Ring card (yes, they use TCP/IP over Token Ring) and some way to punch out
of the SAFECO firewall.

-- 
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.



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