I think you won't find many CS schools teaching that kind of thing --- at
least, not in "x86 handles it *this* way" terms, except possibly as an
example of a particular response. If you want to find out the ugly details
for a particular processor family, you need to get friendly with the
technical documentation for the processors.
(No, it's not a "given" that all CPUs respond that way. No doubt there are
many processors that simply hang....)
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