Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: RISC vs. CISC? No, OS bug executing data... Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 90 06:40:46 GMT Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Lines: 13 A short while back there was a brief flurry about a program that caused an OS crash when run on a variety of RISCs, but seemed to have no problems on CISCs. As I recall it, it executed data (and the OS wasn't handling traps well). Somebody eventually found a CISC it also bombed on. Has anyone saved these postings? Can he (or the poster of the CISC crasher) mail the posts to me? -- Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]