This report stirred up a huge controversy. Intel at first denied that the problem existed. Later, Intel claimed that it was not serious and would not affect most users; however, if you could prove that you were affected, Intel would replace your processor. Finally, public outcry forced Intel to agree to replace all flawed Pentium processors, at huge cost to the company.
Note that this problem occured only on some models of the original Pentium processor. Any Pentium family processor with a clock speed greater than 100 MHz is new enough not to have this bug.
Parts of this article were summarized from information available at http://www.mathworks.com/company/pentium/index.shtml.