> > I asume that you can turn it off?!
> 
> Ummm.... the easiest way to do that is to remove it from the back of the
> machine. We've also got a couple of other problems - programs which rely on
> the R register for a random number generator, for example, won't work any
> more :(

How about a switch? :)

> 
> We're working on it - remember, this is just the protoprototype :)

Sure..sure...:)

> > Well, if it is undocumented you never know what the future brings.
> > But my guess is that you get the result you get because the NMOS
> > probably 'pulls' the databus up, whilce CMOS 'pulls' it down
> > in order to make something readable. The instruction does not
> > actually generate anything.
> 
> Surely the other way around? Actually, on the Z380 that instruction takes
> another operand, so you get OUT (C),n (format: ED 71 nn)

Not when you (purely my theory) reset/set the data bus for each
instruction in order to 'pull' up/down the bits the CPU wants to 
set/reset. :)

> > Does Brucey know about this?
> 
> Not yet, but then, cadging his phone number out of Chris White is like
> pulling teeth without anaesthetic.

Yeah, that's pretty painfull - but does that mean that you have
two nurses holding you down while you'r talking to Chris White? :)

 -Frode

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