In
<ce3ffbb7e42033469ef752a1d8a19ba1eef...@kl1221tc.cs.ad.klmcorp.net>,
on 12/20/2011
   at 04:15 PM, "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" <kees.verno...@klm.com> said:

>Are you serious? 

Certainly. If I recall correctly, MDF was implemented in what Amdahl
called macrocode, not by dedicated hardware. So what triggered the
redispatch at the end of a time slice if not an external interrupt?
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
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