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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Saturday, 4 May 1991 13:13:59 EDT
From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <91124.131359DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
References: <1991Apr30.112820.2451@sugar.hackercorp.com>
 <1991May1.064455.3058@kessner.denver.co.us> <21135@cbmvax.commodore.com>
 <1991May3.041705.9907@kessner.denver.co.us> <21216@cbmvax.commodore.com>
 <1991May3.220043.28760@ncsu.edu>

In article <1991May3.220043.28760@ncsu.edu>, kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu
(Kevin Darling) says:

>Hey, blame _Motorola_ for the 64K offset limits on a 68000 <g>.  "Pure"
>(reentrant) code for the Amiga OS has the same data offset limitations.

It doesn't help, but the '020 and higher offer full 32-bit offsets...

-- Dan Babcock