In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/07/2007
at 10:02 AM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>This is simply not true!!
Want to bet?
>The two AMODE bits (BA & EA) are in the PSW, not in address words.
There are specific instructions that interpret bit 0 of the 32-bit[1]
branch address as AMODE31. See your friendly neighborhood PoOps for
switching between AMODE24 and AMODE31.
[1] In AMODE64 it would be bit 32, and I haven't checked how, e.g.,
BSM, behave in that mode.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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