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- From: eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story)
- Subject: Re: HostileTakeOver of Amiga OS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.213927.21731@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- References: <mcuddy.726187148@fensende> <H9aywB8w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:39:27 GMT
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- In article <H9aywB8w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>, Rockerboy writes:
- > mcuddy@fensende.Rational.COM (Mike Cuddy) writes:
- >
- > > 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.
- >
- > Speaking of this, what is the proper way to find the base of the vectors?
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- AddIntServer... use it, it works.
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