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Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com> writes:

> Another idea that occured to me:  How about using the low order bits
> of the instruction memory address being executed that was interrupted
> by the HZ timer interrupt.

Think of constant-instructions-length processors :-)
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Krzysztof Halasa