I think that Steve's "eternal quest for things to do" was simply a reference to 
the 
fact that the CPU always fetches another instruction after processing the last 
one, 
except when the last one was to load a wait state PSW.

-- 
Tom Marchant

On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 13:15:37 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 10:22:23 -0400, Steve Smith  wrote:
>
>>The "normal cause" is that an invalid opcode came up in the CPU's eternal
>>quest for things to do.
>>
>"quest for things to do" sounds like speculative execution.  What
>happens to a program check in speculative execution?  Does it
>speculatively enter the exception handler, etc.?

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