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- From: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HostileTakeOver of Amiga OS
- Keywords: flame bait lives here
- Message-ID: <H9aywB8w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 05:34:40 EST
- References: <mcuddy.726187148@fensende>
- Reply-To: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
- Organization: Lakes Public Access
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- mcuddy@fensende.Rational.COM (Mike Cuddy) writes:
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- > the biggest gotcha when taking over the machine is that on >68000 machines,
- > the exception vector table is not always at 0. The VBR (vector base
- > register) is used to move the exception table into fast ram to avoid
- > contention with the custom chips.
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- Speaking of this, what is the proper way to find the base of the vectors?
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