idle state

From: mike7411@xxxxxxxxx
Date: 28 Nov 2006 10:41:58 -0800

I'm trying to understand what occurs at a processor level when an OS
such as Windows is idle. Is there an assembler statement tells the
processor to take a break until an interrupt occurs or something
similar? I couldn't find it.

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