Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:48:15 +0100 (MET) From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: cmott@srv.net Subject: Re: Bus Errors Message-ID: <199702100848.JAA22878@truk.brandinnovators.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970209203020.4128A-100000@dolphin.inna.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Feb 9, 97 08:31:00 pm"
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> Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Charles Mott wrote: > > > What does "Bus error" mean? > Amazingly enough, a buss error is a memory allocation error. At least it > was under SunOS. I am guessing FreeBSD is the same on this. The term "Bus error" originated from the Motorola M68K where this is a signal line which is raised when the CPU tries to access (for example) unaligned data. The early Suns (Sun/2, Sun/3) were M68K based machines. Custom had it that you would shout "buzz, buzz!" when one would happen :-) Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138
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