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From: zenith-steven@cs.yale.edu (Steven Ericsson Zenith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: MemStart
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Date: 2 Aug 90 20:30:04 GMT
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In article <11303@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, norman@cs.purdue.EDU (Victor
Todd Norman) writes:
|> Question:  What is MemStart?  I'm looking all through the INMOS
|> Transputer Instruction Set: A compiler writers guide to find where
|> this thing is defined, and I can't find it!  I suppose it is either
|> 0x80000000 or 0x80000800.  I find the reference to MemStart on page
74.


MemStart is an address at a device dependent offset from the base of
memory.
You should checkout the data sheet for the devices you are programming
but
for example for a T425 it's #80000070, for a T414 it's #80000048. The
T800
is the same as the T425.

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