Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> writes:
> > I noticed that the kernel is busy-waiting when idle. Can this not
> > be improved? I am used to the Motorola 68000 which has a WAIT
> > instruction that halts the CPU until an interrupt occurs...
> Unfortunately no, the vax do not have any such instruction,
> busy-wait is the only solution.

Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl> writes:
> One thing SIMH maybe could do is change the meaning of an uncommon
> sort of instruction that's effectively a No OPeration, which could
> be inserted in the busy-wait. SIMH could treat it like a WAIT
> instruction.

This sounds like a good idea.  I, for one, would really like to
eliminate the busy-wait.  Would this, or one of the other suggestions,
be acceptable?

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