Subject: Re: How should I build Postgres?
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
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?

Take care,

Bill