> Okay, trying to see the purpose of this button ? > > Why have an NMI button to break into DDB when you can just use CTRL-ALT-ESC ? NMI is "Non Maskable Interrupt", which means that it cannot be blocked by the OS. Keyboard interrupts can be blocked (masked), and thus may not work under some conditions - especially while the kernel is already processing an interrupt. -DG David G. Lawrence President Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (888) 346 7175 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities.Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 05:15:41 UTC
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