James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Don't know if this is a bug or not... but in Hardrake2 if you have
> an Intel PIII CPU one of the listings if for a Coma bug.... now.. is
> this supposed to comma as in the punctuation mark, or coma as in a
> deep sleep brought on by medical trauma....

the latter

> Don't want to report it to bugzilla if I'm being naive, but it does
> seem funny to note that my cpu has no bugs related to a coma....

the cyrix 6x86 coma bug is the following: a simple, short, legal
instruction sequence will lock the processor in an infinite loop and
will prevent servicing of interrupts. This will obviously crash the
machine.
thus the box is in coma


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