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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 68040's Move16
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 22:27:44 +0100
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- trulsson@student.docs.uu.se (Erik Trulsson) writes:
-
- >I *think*that the problem is as follows: (please correct me if I am wrong)
- >The Move16 instruction uses the burst-transfer mode of the '040.
-
- The 040 always does burst transfers (for cachable addresses) but as the
- A3640 doesn't support special burst cycles this looks like 4 normal longword
- cycles to the motherboard.
-
- >Therefore the Move16 instruction will not work on a normal A4000 ,
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- It does work (short of 68040 bugs).
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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