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From: paul@dy4.uucp (Paul Burry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: MOVE SR,<ea>
Message-ID: <167@dy4.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 90 17:34:00 GMT
References: <90109.022418L98CC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <6311@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> <10989@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Apr20.231003.21736@csuchico.edu> <19944@grebyn.com> <11069@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: paul@dy4.UUCP (Paul Burry)
Organization: DY-4 Systems Inc. Nepean, Ont Can.
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In article <11069@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
|In article <19944@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
||
||And also, notice the new 68040.  It has a fully 68882-compatible floating
||point unit built in - but only if the kernel intercepts the traps caused by
||the missing trig instructions and emulates them.  So I must ask Commodore to
||be sure to take care of this when they ship their 68040.
|
|Well, why don't you write such trap handler and we'll gladly include it!  :-)
|And while you're at it, how about designing a 68040 for us?
|
|Valentin
|-- 
|The Goddess of democracy? "The tyrants     Name:    Valentin Pepelea
|may distroy a statue,  but they cannot     Phone:   (215) 431-9327
|kill a god."                               UseNet:  cbmvax!valentin@uunet.uu.net
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The trap handler is available from Motorola.  Hopefully, the new Exec
will provide full support for '040 FPU emulation and it's new stack frame
formats....


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