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Re: 68000 Memory Managment

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From: Gijs Mos
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1986 00:28
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In article <508@elmgate.UUCP> jdg@elmgate.UUCP writes:
...
>If memory serves me correct the 68000 can not restart/resume a bus faulted
>instruction.  So regardless of what mkind of MMU you try to hang on it, it
>can not overcome this problem.   ...

The Motorola Programmers Reference Manual (page 45, MC68000/68008):
	...
	Although this information is not sufficient in general to effect full
	recovery from the bus error, it does allow software diagnosis.
	...
You cannot do virtual memory, you cannot auto-allocate stack space, but you
*can* do multitasking. 

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Gijs Mos

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Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: 68000 Memory Managment
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Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 20:28:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 14 20:28:31 1986
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