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- From: isthesin@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Stephan Thesing)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Memory Map Needed!!!
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- Sender: isthesin@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Stephan Thesing)
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:36:50 GMT
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- In article <ckzgrKK00iUyQ3QgxT@andrew.cmu.edu>, Berend Ozceri <bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- |> 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.
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- Near miss :-)
- In fact, SSP and PC are loaded from addresses 0/4 at boot time, not set to
- address 0.
- Anyhow the fact that *ExecBase is in address 4 has nothing to do with booting.
- At the time, ExecBase is created, the lower memory area is again RAM.
-
- Bye...
- Stephan
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- |>
- |> Berend Ozceri
- |> Carnegie Mellon University
- |>
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