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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68040 vs 80246 (Was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <824@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 20:35:27 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <49900@bbn.COM> denbeste@bbn.com (Steven Den Beste) writes:

>The original release of the 68000 had a bug in the "page fault" interrupt,
>so that it pushed the STACK POINTER onto the stack frame instead of the RETURN
>ADDRESS. Needless to say, this made it pretty hard to use an MMU with a 68000.

     Ouch.  I hadn't heard that one.  Thanks for the historical note.
The score now stands at:

        680x0: 1 wart           80x86: 3 warts

Does anyone have any more horror stories?

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
"I'm cursed with hair from HELL!"  -- Night Court