Ziff-Davis Labs European director Ed Henning believes that the so-called bug found in Intel's Pentium Pro and Pentium II won't be a big deal for users.
In an article posted on the ZD Net UK Web site today, Henning calls the bug "very obscure ... the sort that normally only concerns compiler writers who routinely have to find workarounds to many small anomalies in the way processors work".
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