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- From: whit@carson.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:15:02 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <D2150056.oaq0me@erics.infoserv.com> erics@infoserv.com writes:
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- >> >The 68000 contains no MMU, nor is it possible to implement virtual memory
- >> >with the 68000 - there are some instructions that could not be restarted
- >> >following a page fault.
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- It IS possible; one must use a lot of hardware to do it,
- and only a couple of companies bothered. The general scheme is to
- have a second 68000 which COULD be interrogated for the pre-fault
- machine state. It sounds funny, but all it takes is a delay
- of a clock cycle or two, so that the second 68000 wouldn't have
- taken the irreversible step at the time that the page fault
- was detected.
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- I even have a SUN dual-68000 CPU board on the shelf here...
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- John Whitmore
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