It is a great story to tell. But actually it is a documented feature like this datasheet from 2004 describe: http://datasheets.chipdb.org/VIA/Samuel2/VIA%20C3%2

It is a great story to tell. But actually it is a documented feature like this datasheet from 2004 describe: http://datasheets.chipdb.org/VIA/Samuel2/VIA%20C3%20Samuel%202%20Datasheet%20V1.12.pdf http://datasheets.chipdb.org/VIA/Samuel2/VIA%20C3%20Samuel%2... ALTINST is well known among C3 processors.