I can't confirm the claim being removed and nobody seems to speak up for it.

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   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 2002/12/27 14:01:40 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2002/12/27 15:04:45 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
@@ -47,9 +47,6 @@
 
   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
 
-    o BN_mod_mul verification fails for mips3-sgi-irix
-      unless configured with no-asm
-
     o [2002-11-21]
       PR 343 mentions that scrubbing memory with 'memset(ptr, 0, n)' may
       be optimized away in modern compilers.  This is definitely not good