On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:17:18AM -0400, D-Man wrote: > This would also (theoretically) lead to less power consumption and a > lower electric bill. Pretty nice! Say, does that HLT instruction > work on a i486 or only on newer CPUs? I also seem to recall, back > when I was learning m68k assembly, that the halt instruction on there > shouldn't be used if you want to ever do any procesing again (without > a reboot). From my boot messages: CPU: 486 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. IIRC hlt has been available since the 386. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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