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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: multitasking, softswitch, etc.
Message-ID: <9971@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:24:39 GMT
References: <8903181259.aa27052@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <10183@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <9949@smoke.BRL.MIL> <19611@srcsip.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <19611@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@haarlem.UUCP (Son of Knuth) writes:
>Basically, just change the direct page register, and forget
>about saving the direct page contents.  Right off hand, I think the only
>time this would be a problem is with non-well-behaved programs, ...

Ok, I'll grant you that.  Most of the large assembly-language programs
I've seen for the IIGS, however, deliberately pop into 8-bit mode from
time to time, and I think there might be a problem with these.