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...script. Some people mentioned that there are now 4 known opcodes that stop a pentium. Some claim that "it stops the clock" because the temp of the processor drops dramatically. I''m not sure. How much of the power that a Pentium draws would be dissipated in the clock distribution circuitery? I expect not a seriously large part, so the temp of the processor indeed should drop dramatically if it simply halts, and no more changes are incurred in most of the processor. At the moment it seems that: - All Intel-socket7 processors are affected: Pentium, Pentium-MMX. - Cyrix (= IBM)...