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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Some more on NMI problems (some meager advancement)
Message-ID: <7476@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:49:16 GMT
References: <1992Sep7.014351.946@ponds.uucp>
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <1992Sep7.014351.946@ponds.uucp> rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers) writes:
>Well, I thought I would relay my current status with the NMI
>investigation.

I had a problem with spurious NMIs that was solved by removing the
halt instruction from the idle loop.  It's been suggested that the
reason for this is that memory is not being refreshed while the
processor is halted.

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin,
AI Applications Institute,                                R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.