While this was a PR disaster for Intel, for me the Pentium FOOF bug[1] was much more consequential since it meant anyone could run a trivial command to lock up

While this was a PR disaster for Intel, for me the Pentium FOOF bug[1] was much more consequential since it meant anyone could run a trivial command to lock up our shared Linux machines. Luckily Linux found a fix for it fairly quickly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug