Re: lock a pentium for fun!

[Mr Stuart Lamble <lamble@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>]

In article <87en4qrhgc.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu> you wrote:
: john@dhh.gt.org writes:
: > Ted writes:
: > > Someone wondered (as one does) what might possibly happen if you tried
: > > the unassigned codes.
: > 
: > It is a bug for a processor to have any unassigned codes.
: 
: In what way is it a bug?  If all the codes are assigned, then future
: extensions become impossible.

Say, rather, that it is a bug for a processor to have any unassigned codes
that do not generate an illegal instruction trap. I understand that several
codes fit this bill on the Pentium...

-- 
Running at a mere 104 billion instructions per second, the SX4 appears to
be the only machine actually capable of running Office '97.
  -- ChipChat, Australian Personal Computer, September 1997 (paraphrased.)


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