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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Launch and Switch Fields in the Task Structure
Keywords: multitasking launch switch system programming
Message-ID: <964@boing.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 91 16:19:35 GMT
References: <17933@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <93@hdwr1.medar.com> <1991Mar29.194508.3712@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <1991Mar29.194508.3712@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Anarchy for Peace) writes:
>>
>I'm not a commodore guy, but my Lattice (5.04) manual says that some 3rd
>party accelerator boards don't correctly tie into the task launch/switch signals
>for task switching.  They then go on to say that the Commodore boards do
>conform and are fine.

Any accelerator card that replaces the 68000 with a 68020/68030/...
and 6888x class coprocessor is supported internally by the AmigaOS.

It is only those math accelerator cards that have to be spoon fed data to
get them to work that requires proper vendor support. Commodore does not make
such a thing right now but all the hooks are there for the vendor to supply
software and have their math board supported in a multitasking environment.

I know that at least the Microbotics multifunction board performed properly.

>Colin DeWolfe
>dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca

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Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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