Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:

Paul Graham pjg at acsu.buffalo.edu
Fri Aug 10 14:32:48 AEST 1990


peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
[a program which executes random bytes causes problems on an 80386]
|
|Ah, Intel. Tests on a 68000 (yes, a real 68000) running System V.2 will
|be done shortly.

since this particular program exploits (at least on a sparc) an o.s. bug it
hardly seems fair to blame intel or perhaps praise motorola based on their
hardware.



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