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Article #7118Re: Assembler Programming - Costs versus Benefits
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 1990 12:54
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 1990 12:54
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In article <CEDMAN.90Nov29102235@lynx.ps.uci.edu>, cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes: > Amiga OS has been written in a way which is compatible > with higher processors, ST OS hasn't. User programs for the ST should > run unmodified under higher processors. Um, no. It seems the ST operating system interface includes a bunch of calls made by using reserved opcodes. Which turned into real opcodes on the 68020. Big mistake. If it was just O/S internals stuff they could have fixed it by now. In any case, none of it was necessary. > And intuition.library does not screen you from any processor > incompatibilities. No, but high level languages do. Try doing "move SR,ea" in C some time. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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