IT>     Take any DOS assembler (even DEBUG will do) and create a simple
 IT>     program (.COM or .EXE, no matter) with this piece of code in it:

 IT>      cli
 IT>      x:
 IT>      jmp x

 IT>     Execute this in a DOS window.

 IT>     Hope you closed all the applications first... ;)

It kills without incident here. Of course, the key to winning this argument
is a post-486 motherboard. Some gizmo called a watchdog is involved.

Jeff

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