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- From: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: 6509 (was Re: I know there's a Z80 there somewhere!)
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 15:44:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- References: <4fnprr$a1p@gatekeeper.liffe.com> <4fp9eh$nd7@clam.rutgers.edu> <4fqr8v$3ih@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <DMqJpC.114@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
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- In <DMqJpC.114@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes:
- > The code is quite small...I remmeber The Switcheroo Pivot only being 50 bytes
- >or so. The big pain is that when you switch CPUs the other one takes off from
- >where it went to sleep, so you have to arrange a common place for this stuff to
- >happen. Sort-of like switching banks with no common RAM (B-series transfer
- >sequences, anyone?)
-
- I never had a B-series machine (would love to have one) so I know
- little of the 6509 (as it was called, right?) I do remember that it
- apparently did bank switching separately for code and data, using bank
- registers in 0000 and 0001. (This trick was done earlier in the PDP-11,
- which also has a 64K address space for user programs, to allow 64K
- program code and 64K data per process). Anyone who can tell more about
- this?
-
- >David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
- -Olaf.
- --
- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl The only excuse
- \X/ for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. -O.W.
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