Lawson,
You're a tease! Your interesting comments beg for elaboration.
> A Pentium Pro is just a hyperactive 386 with a swelled head. :-) I
Let me be sure I understand. You distinguished "80[3456789]86" from
the Pentium ff machines in that the former have no lockup fault
handler to kill the process and continue. So does your comment that a
Pentium Pro is just as "hyperactive" imply it, too, lacks such a fault
handler? That is, in this respect, the Pentium Pro is less reliable
than the old Pentium I?
> hardware to detect it. Another hardware architechture I am familiar
> with has a lockup timer, and if a processor keeps interrupts masked for
> more than 16ms it generates a lockup fault. If all goes well, the
> lockup fault handler dumps the offending program and the OS continues to
> work. 80[3456789]86 just doesn't have that.
What is this "another hardware architecture?" In context, this seems
to refer to all Pentiums (except the PP?), but perhaps not. If not, to
which hardware architecture do you refer?
Haines Brown
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