RE: cpu not detected(x86)

[Petr Vandrovec]

On  7 Aug 01 at 22:09, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> "The counter is incremented on every processor clock cycle,
>  even when the processor is halted by the HLT instruction or
>  the external STPCLK# pin"

But not if clocks are completely stopped, not through STPCLK, but
just stopped.
 
> "The RDTSC instruction reads the time-stamp counter and is
>   _guaranteed_ to return a monotonically increasing unique value
>  _whenever_ executed, except for 64-bit wraparound".

This only says that two consecutive RDTSC do not return same value.
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