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From: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Accessing the Chips directly
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Date: 8 Nov 90 02:55:21 GMT
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In article <15683@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
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>The underlying chip registers don't change unless there's a good reason for
>them to change.  But if there's a good reason, then they change.  The most
>recent such change was rather trivial -- the A3000 got a different realtime
>clock, so that we could have a small amount of battery backed RAM for the
>software folks to play with.  But it's certainly possible for other things

	Does this mean we can have a REAL "Clock Virus" now?  Oh boy, viri
that survive Power-Down...
	PLEASE tell us there is SOME protection against "incorrect" usage of
this battery backed RAM (other than the obvious 'the CPU must be TOLD to 
execute this RAM')...

>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"

	-- Matt

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