In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/13/2006
at 03:22 PM, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Why would the RESTART key (which today is a function on the HMC,
>RESTART or PSW RESTART) cause a machine check?
Obviously because of a hardware glitch. But the CE refused to admit it
until we dragged the SE into the argument.
>It causes a PSW RESTART, which
>loads a PSW from a defined low-store location.
When it worked :-(
>For many years, that PSW
>has invoked a system recovery routiine;
That came later; I used it to invoke DSS.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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