Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!sci.kun.nl!atcmpe!jc
From: jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:
Message-ID: <651@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 15 Aug 90 07:35:21 GMT
References: <4c33cff2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lines: 16

) 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...
-- 
___  __  ____________________________________________________________________
   |/  \   Jan Christiaan van Winkel      Tel: +31 80 566880  jc@atcmp.nl
   |       AT Computing   P.O. Box 1428   6501 BK Nijmegen    The Netherlands
__/ \__/ ____________________________________________________________________