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From: umar@cybercom.net (Rob Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: What does this mean?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 09:01:34 -0500
Organization: Cyber Access Internet Services (617) 396-0491
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Message-ID: <umar-0502960901340001@dial1-10.cybercom.net>
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My 386 running NetBSD 1.1/i386 occasionally displays the following message:

natrix/netbsd: NMI port 61 b0, port 70 ff

I know that NMI stands for non-maskable interrupt, but what exactly is
this message telling me and (more important) what are the practical
consequences?

The lastest message appeared Sunday morning at 5:03:26 am when no one was
logged in.


Rob Landry
umar@cybercom.net