Peter Fitzsimmons wrote in a message to Joe Lerch:


 JL> debug
 JL> -a
 JL> xxxx:0100 cli
 JL> xxxx:0101 jmp 100
 JL> xxxx:0103 
 JL> -g 

PF> Buy better computers  -- good computers (IBM, Compaq)
PF> have a firmware timer feature that OS/2 will use to prevent
PF> this type of lockup.

Thanks for the reply.

Is it easy to find out if a computer has the firmware timer feature, or
must you rely on a salesperson to know if a particular model has it? I ask
this because I don't remember reading anything of this feature in any
advertisements or reviews on new systems.


Joe
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