The feature is in the Ethernet NIC, not the BIOS. It's been present in pretty much all hardware implementations since the 1980s. There's a fun story of TDR on "

The feature is in the Ethernet NIC, not the BIOS. It's been present in pretty much all hardware implementations since the 1980s. There's a fun story of TDR on "thick-wire" Ethernet being used to characterize nuclear detonations[1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160507110751/http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Folklore/How%20do%20you%20measure%20nuclear%20warhead%20yield%3F.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160507110751/http://www.csd.uw...