Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: A-line traps Message-ID: <3619@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 13 Dec 87 14:55:33 GMT References: <159@teletron.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 7 Since Apple used the A-line traps for ROM calls in the Macintosh, I doubt that future 68K chips would make valid instructions out of them. There must be thousands of application programs that rely on this, and Apple is probably the largest 68K customer. -- {pyramid,ptsfa,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "Watch me change my world..." -- Liquid Theatre