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Re: Appl //c Basic
- Subject: Re: Appl //c Basic
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 01 Jul 2001 15:48:06 GMT
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Mark Cummings wrote:
>> You can't make the reset do nothing - it has to jump somewhere.
>
>jump - fair enough, do nothing - depends on your definition. a BRA #$FE
>would do virtually nothing, at least not as far as the user is concerned.
Well, since the program running has been interrupted at an unknown
spot, with unknown progress in committing the results of computations
to storage, and there is no hope of coherently recovering the state of
the machine, I'd say that constitutes "doing something"--most likely
destructive to the orderly progress of the running program. Reset _might_,
with some probability, allow for restarting a program, but the state of
memory as a result of the unknown progress of the program is dicey.
-michael
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