#nocontext "This is due to the nature of most filesystems and the fact that I/O devices will have to abide to the laws of physics"
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no, it's from the rt-linux wiki
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so I went there to see what it was so I could see if I could make a snarky comment about closed time-like curves \
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but my brain is refusing to advance past "On P4 systems you can burn your CPU to death, when SMI is disabled."
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like I think the stupidity implied by that sentence re: Netburst's design tripped some sort of bugcheck in my brain.
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so after reading a Netburst-gen datasheet things are both more & less daft: \
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yes, there is a thermal fuse that latches
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however, due to Intel's idiotic MSR layout, if you disable all SMI ints & then fail to reenable Thermal Monitor, \
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the former is literally the only thermal protection still active on the processor then.
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