Subject: Re: How should I build Postgres?
To: Henry B. Hotz <firstname.lastname@example.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <email@example.com>
Date: 05/26/1999 15:42:17
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> > At 12:16 PM -0700 5/26/99, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > >Does the TAS instruction need hardware support?
> > Well, sort-of. It needs a 68000 family CPU. ;-)
> What I meant was, I thought that the TAS instruction generated a special
> read-modify-write istruction. If so, does the mac68k hardware support it?
More specifically, does the Apple memory system support the special memory
cycle used by the TAS instruction?