On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 01:38, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Don't know if this is a bug or not... but in Hardrake2 if you have > > an Intel PIII CPU one of the listings if for a Coma bug.... now.. is > > this supposed to comma as in the punctuation mark, or coma as in a > > deep sleep brought on by medical trauma.... > > the latter > > > Don't want to report it to bugzilla if I'm being naive, but it does > > seem funny to note that my cpu has no bugs related to a coma.... > > the cyrix 6x86 coma bug is the following: a simple, short, legal > instruction sequence will lock the processor in an infinite loop and > will prevent servicing of interrupts. This will obviously crash the > machine. > thus the box is in coma
Thierry, Thanks for the explanation... actually I didn't notice this directly but my wife who is a native Korean speaker looked at my screen and asked "How can computer have coma?" Since I've never had a Cyrix chip.. didn't know. Thanks. James > >
