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It is explained in the FAQ:

There was a bug in early Pentiums called the f00f bug, it would cause a deadlock if you provided an invalid operand to cmpxchg8b while using the lock prefix. It was an important vulnerability at the time, and I thought it would be fun to own lock.cmpxchg8b.com.



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