[plug] CTRL-ALT-DEL

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:31, Christian wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:32:10AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> > If its a CPU lockup, there is no recovery.

> Do CPUs actually crash?

Disable-interrupts followed by wait-for-interrupt or branch-dot will 
generally do about as much as a CPU crash or something like disabling the MMU 
and then trying to use it (shades of Windows 98: remove the sound driver, 
THEN play the shutdown sound), but yes, executing some series of undefined 
instructions will often literally knot up a CPU.