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