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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: 386 Family Products
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 19:26:02 EST
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> 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.)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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