Saturday, January 25, 2025

68000 implemented instruction

Motorola 68000 CPU sees an instruction with $A oxide as an unimplemented instructio which is similar to a software interrupt mechanism. It akins to a supervisor call instruction in other CPU. The data portion of the instruction contain the routine number to pass control to. A flag indicate if it is for the OS or ROM.  The routine number is an index to dispatch table that contains. The address of the routine. 

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