From: Rick Kelly (rmk@rmkhome.UUCP)
Date: 08/14/93 

Subject: Re: Are any SIMMs cheap these day$ ?
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 20:24:13 GMT

In article <2490d8$msm@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:

>(on some machines, a NMI might be harmless: it's possible that a
>portable would use NMI for some powersaving things, for example. I
>wouldn't know)
>
> Linus

Yup. An NMI can be any general hardware error. On a laptop it can be
caused by an old NICAD battery whose current curve is out of whack. 

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Rick Kelly    rmk%rmkhome@merk.com    merk!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP