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In article <19971229182345168015@newtechd.demon.co.uk>,
alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame) wrote:

> ISTR, one of the "fixes" in 7.5.5 & 7.6 was that they're would
> be fewer Type 11 errors on PPC boxes. The cynical have suggested
> that's just because they are correctly identified as other specific
> errors and not just reported as miscellaneous hardware exception 
> type 11 errors...

No, that's actually what Apple described it as doing.  If the 680x0
emulator crashed in the earlier systems, it was always reported as
a Type 11 error.  The fix meant that the PPC would analyse how the
emulator had crashed and report the appropriate error message.  I
don't think there was any suggestion that there'd be fewer crashes.

... except that, given the correct error message, the user would be
more likely to be able to work out why the crash had happened and
figure out how to prevent it from happening again.

Simon.
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