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From: rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: ColdReboot() - The Never Ending Story?
Message-ID: <03267.AA03267@babylon.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 02:31:25 GMT
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In article <1191@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM
(Joe Smith) writes:

> But interrupts can't come along after the CPU executes a
> RESET instruction. The RESET instruction clears all the
> interupt-enable bits.  The existing version of
> ColdReboot() is OK in that respect.

No, it's not!

This is straight from the Motorola manual:

"Description: The reset line is asserted for 124 clocks,
causing all external devices to be reset. The processor
state, other than the program counter, is unaffected and
execution continues with the next instruction."

And by the way: I've tested it.

Ralph