[A83] Re: 83p os


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[A83] Re: 83p os



With this brought up....would you guys like some sort of virtual 
platform to test stuff on?  Bar messing up a calculator hack, would 
it be easier on calculator or a virtual hardware machine?

corey

> Upgrade your calcs to the ti89 (or *shudder* the voyage200 ) 
the 68k
> has some protected mode stuff.
> 
> brandon sterner
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patai Gergely" <patai_gergely@fastmail.fm>
> To: "Assembly-83 list" <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 2:07 AM
> Subject: [A83] Re: 83p os
> 
> 
>> > 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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