5 Feb
1999
5 Feb
'99
9:46 a.m.
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
Nice; take a perfectly good joke and analyze it. AFAIK, Intel was the
first to have segment-level protection for which there may be several
types of "general" faults. Earlier processors had other protection
schemes, such as page-level protection, which would throw *specific* page
faults (which Intel also does).
I'm sure somebody will prove me wrong, but I say my joke stands up to the
closest scrutiny until they do!
-- Doug
No, Intel
invented the GPF, but Microsoft embraced and extended it.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it was DEC (or whoever made the first
protected-mode processor).