[A83] Re: 83p os

[A83] Re: 83p os

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• Subject: [A83] Re: 83p os
• From: "Patai Gergely" <patai_gergely@fastmail.fm>
• Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 07:07:30 +0100
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> Big deal.  The current OS will crash if a programmer writes faulty code,
> too.  As it has been said many times on this list already, the z80 was
> never
> meant to be powerful enough to be able to trap writes to bad memory
> locations or in this case setting the interrupt mode to mode 2.
Not that it's not powerful enough. The real problem is that the CPU
doesn't have "protected mode".

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