Some senseless babbling from Jeff Dunlop to David Noon
on 04 Dec 98  17:59:34 about Guess who's back... ;)...

 IT>> Hope you closed all the applications first... ;)
 
 DN> It just means you have a duff machine. Those of us who have EISA or MCA
 DN> motherboards have the watchdog timer in the bus control chipset to deal
 DN> with excessively long disabling of interrupts.

 JD> PCI also falls in this category, or I would have no explanation for
 JD> why this degenerate case that used to crash my 486s doesn't crash my
 JD> Pentiums. 

Late-step 486's and Pentium-class chips from Intel have fast virtualization 
routines built-in, which OS/2 takes advantage of.  No watchdog timers on 
the PCI bus, as evidenced by the fact that Cyrix and AMD chips will be 
frozen by the disabling interrupt loop.

Mike Ruskai
thanny{at}home.com


... Cool, I like explosions.
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