Hi Orr, I would like to make a brief technical comment regarding a slide. Since it is not about your English, I think it's OK to post it online.
The processors of the x86 family when powered up and/or after reset start running from address F000:FFF0 which will point to address FFFFFFF0 (see the Intel manual at ftp://download.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/24547207.pdf chapter 9 "Processor Management and Initialization" , especially section 9.1) PCs place ROM (read only memory) at that address which performs the POST (power on self-test) , initializes the BIOS and finally passes control to address 07C0:0000 (00007C00). So it's not an external circuit which supplies the address, it's the ROM BIOS code. Emil WARNING: FLAME!!!!!! For all those not liking it, ignore! <FLAME> I believe that online posting has certain advantages because other members can see the postings: 1) Other members won't post corrections that have been already made. Yeah yeah, other members are lazy ;-) 2) Other members (if they are not lazy enough) can correct erroneous corrections ;-) of other posters. 3) Other members who are lazy to post might also improve their English by reading the corrections I believe that these advantages outperform the minor disadvantage of being slightly embarrassed. But it's your call. </FLAME> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > I've put an alpha version of the lecture I'll give in the Introduction to > OS lecture next week at http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/lecture.ps > comments are welcome and appriciated... > > > -- > Orr Dunkelman, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If God is perfect, why did he create discontinuous functions? -- > .//yro footnote > > Spammers: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/spam.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
