[LMH]Independant simulator progress.

Nyef nyef@softhome.net
Sat May 11 14:21:01 2002


On Sat, 11 May 2002, Nyef wrote:

> A-Memory is almost certainly accessible by way of the NuBus. This is the
> only way for it to be mapped into the Lisp address space without an
> undocumented special hack in the virtual memory system, and that would
> just be too dirty for words. The same applies for the I/O space that's
> just below the A-Memory in Lisp space.

Okay, I'm wrong. SSDN2, section 5.11.2.1 clearly says that the A-Memory
hack is in the microcode that handles Map Miss page exceptions.

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Alastair Bridgewater
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