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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Memory Map Needed!!!
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 00:37:09 GMT
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- Berend Ozceri (bo24+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
- : 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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- No, location 0 stores "HELP" if the machine was reset because of a software
- failure. The "alert.hook" initialisation routine then checks location 0 in
- order to decide whether to display an alert at startup or not.
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