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From: kris@tpki.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
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Date: 15 May 91 14:40:56 GMT
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tim@proton.amd.com (Tim Olson) writes:
>                                                         I seem to
>remember discussions of user-code trying to access the SR and failing
>on the 68010, which protects that register in user-mode.  If so, then
>the code must be running in user-mode, and it must somehow switch to
>supervisor-mode at some point...

No.

AmigaOS is running in User Mode. You could probably fix this by hiding the
switch to supervisor-mode in the library code.

Kristian


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