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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Nextstaion as plan9 terminal
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:36:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005801c1451f$7205a5c0$a2b9c6d4@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010924172455.5597119A73@mail.cse.psu.edu>

> We also had continuing problems with backing out of interrupts:
> the processor didn't take interrupts between instructions.  Instead
> you had to figure out the state of the machine and back it out by hand.
> We were pretty good at this but I remember there still being a lingering
> problem.

reminds me of the early 68020s.  apart from the n too many interrupt
stacks frames there was a scary piece of assembler to mangle the
frame and then resume -- nasty.




  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-24 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-24 17:24 presotto
2001-09-24 17:36 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-09-24 18:28 ` Jon Snader
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-24 20:43 jmk
     [not found] <matthias@mteege.de>
2001-09-24 14:19 ` Matthias Teege
2001-09-24 14:36   ` James A. Robinson
2001-09-24 16:58   ` Frank da Cruz
2001-09-24 17:00   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-24 17:16     ` William K. Josephson

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