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- From: Berend Ozceri <bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Memory Map Needed!!!
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:46:46 -0500
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.programmer: 18-Jan-96 Re: Amiga
- Memory Map Needed!!! by A. Naimoli@cli.di.unipi.
- > : The only path you can travel that doesn't make you stop because of these
- > : obstacles is in following the operating system.
- >
- > Ok, so location $4 points to EXEC, but:
- >
- > 1) I wonder: why not 0?
-
- Most probably because location 0 is used during cold boots (i.e. the PC
- of the 680x0 is set to 0) and code starts executing from that address.
- There is some overlay magic done to shadow Kickstart ROM to lower memory
- during the early stages of the boot process.
-
- Berend Ozceri
- Carnegie Mellon University
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