[comp.arch] Interrupts in user space and precise traps

mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) (09/18/90)

Sir, I beg to differ strongly. Traps are NOT trivially guaranteed to
be synchronous in a heavily pipelined machine.  There can be a great
deal going on at once and the notion that "they can only happen
at convenient places" is simply wrong.

"There are more things in this world, Horatio, than are dreamt of
in your Philosopies."

	-Mike