Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:
Jan Christiaan van Winkel
jc at atcmp.nl
Wed Aug 15 17:35:21 AEST 1990
) OK. Here is a quick summary of the HOW TO CRASH A RISC machine from
) a USER-MODE program test. Reports have arrived that all of these machines
) can be crashed using CRASHME.C:
) IBM RT, MIPS, DECSTATION 5000, SPARC.
)
) On the two CISC architectures tried, VAX/VMS and SUN-3, the program
) either completed or exited with a core or register dump, as expected.
On the Altos 2086 running Xenix 3.3as1, the system displays:
System memory timeout error
on the console and dies...
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