Re: 65032: Re-designed 65c832

["Arkain" <rwking@usa.nospam.net>]

Those bits in the status register will be output on the 2 pins so that the
MMU and other components will be able to tell what mode the processor is
running in. It would be somewhat catastrophic if something in the system
tries to send a 32bit command while the processor is in 8bit mode!

Arkain

"Matt Jenkins" <mdj@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote in message
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> pins ? why ? Surely you can just set/unset a bit in the status register or
> something...
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> Cheers,
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> Matt
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