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From: norskog@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Godless 68000 instruction set - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 23:02:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 23:02:28 1983
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fortune!norskog    Dec  8 17:25:00 1983

I didn't know about the "movb <ea>, @sp-" bug.  Thanks.

We got a bad batch of 68000's; I'm sure lots of people got them.
The Seg-fault trap pushes the SP on the stack instead of the PC.  Cute, huh?  
The bourne shell uses seg-faults to allocate memory.  (It has to
be heavily munged to work reliably with more than 200 bytes of 
shell variables.)  Thus, context-switching crashes the kernel.

Does your UNIX reliably crash on certain machines, but not others?
Better check your 68k's!