Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch Subject: Re: Re: 386 Family Products Message-ID: <6113@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 19:26:02 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.6113 Posted: Mon Nov 4 19:26:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 19:26:02 EST References: <129@intelca.UUCP> <392@aum.UUCP> <625@spar.UUCP>, <391@sesame.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 > For those who haven't received their '386 info packets yet, a nice > feature that I wish all chips would include: > > 4 hardware breakpoint registers!! These registers will break not only > on execution, but also on data access to any of the defined addresses. > Oh boy! Software only 'ICE' features. What will they think up next? You mean, what will they borrow from National next? The 32000 family MMU has had this sort of thing all along. Does the 386 have branch- history registers? (The 32000 MMU does.) -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry