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- Short: CPU Control Utility
- Author: m_berndt@wanderer.gun.de (Martin Berndt)
- Uploader: t.esser@darkness.gun.de (Thomas Esser)
- Type: util/misc
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- CPU-Control 1.10 (12-Mar-95)
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- CPU-Control is a CPU-like utility for Kickstart/WB 2.0 including a GUI.
- The main difference to other tools of this kind is, that CPU-Control
- recognizes external changes of any of its parameters. Because of this
- special feature it needs some CPU-Time (not much), but in iconified state
- it needs no processor time at all. Additionally CPU-Control allows moving
- VBR (VectorBaseRegister) to Fast-RAM, which significantly speeds up all
- Traps/Interupts. Many CLI Options have been included to allow usage in
- scripts, so it's a good idea to put "CPU-Control vbr nw" in your Startup-
- Sequence.
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- Requirements
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- Amiga-OS 2.04 or higher is required to run CPU-Control.
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- History
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-
- 1.0 - initial release: 8-May-92
-
- 1.1 - release date: 13-May-92
-
- - many serious bugs (hopefully) fixed
- - overall code optimisation
- - added 68020/851 and 68030 MMU support
- - added "ICONIFY" option
-
- 1.2 - release date: 14-May-92
-
- - added CHECK option to test for a specified processor
- Example: CPU-Control check 68030
- will produce an ErrorCode 5 if not found
- CHECK always activates the NOWIN option
- - cleaned-up menu layout
-
- 1.3 - release date: 16-May-92
-
- - added MOVESSP option to allow moving the Supervisor
- Stackpointer to fast memory
- - CLI mode (especially CHECK) can now be used on 68000
- - minor code cleanup
-
- 1.3a - release date: 7-Jul-92
-
- - Cache-Inhibit for ChipRAM is no longer set automatically
- because every well-behaving hardware (including A3000
- and A2620/30 Turboboards) does this already.
- In addition operation in ChipRAM is slightly faster now,
- because the hardwired solution effects Datacache only.
- In case of trouble the CCI option (CLI only!) could be
- used to enable Cache-Inhibit. Of course this option is
- only useful if used together with the MMU option.
-
- 1.4 - release date: 16-Jul-92
-
- - implemented support for PC/AT-Bridgeboards
- Cache-Inhibit for Dual-Ported-RAM will be set as soon
- as the MMU becomes active (SafeKick or FastROM)
- - implemented SystemInfo (Menu or CLI-Option "SI")
- The short delay when measuring the MIPS performance is
- quite normal, so don't worry about it!
- - more Menu-Shortcuts available (just have a look...)
- - minor code cleanup
-
- 1.5 release date: 21-Jul-92
-
- - CPU-Control is Font-Sensitive now!
- - replaced "CPU: ..... FPU: ....." text by "System Info"
- gadget
-
- 1.5a release date: 17-Sep-92
-
- - Oh dear... Cache-Inhibit for Bridgeboards did not work!
-
- 1.6 release date: 27-Oct-92
-
- - FastROM and SafeKick works with 68040 now (hopefully!).
- Address-Space is currently truncated to 64MB in order
- to keep translation tables short and fast.
- - improved MMU-switching routines
-
- 1.7 release date: 13-Mar-93
-
- - GUI is now fully OS-3.x compatible (Menus, BusyPointer)
- - AA Chipset is recognized now
- - minor code cleanup
-
- 1.8 release date: 4-Apr-93
-
- - 040 CopyBack switching behaves exactly like the CPU
- command now.
- - fixed MMU routines for A4000/40.
- active MMU (after SetPatch) will be displayed as ALIEN,
- inactive MMU will be displayed as PRIVATE.
- MMU usage is forbidden, and would be useless anyway.
-
- 1.9 release date: 25-May-93
-
- - overall code cleanup
- - added MFLOPS calculation to System Info
- - display method for active Kickstart version is 100%
- clean now
-
- BTW: MIPS and MFLOPS are no absolute values, but they
- can be helpful to compare systems using the SAME
- test software.
-
- 1.10 release date: 12-Mar-95
-
- - fixed small bug in MIPS/MFLOPS display routines
- - FastROM and SafeKick support for 68040 removed
- - removed internal ColdReboot patch, replaced by external
- RebootPatch program, which works perfectly with all MMUs
- - added external PatchExcept program to fix a serious bug
- in Kickstarts guru routines
- - includes source files for RebootPatch and PatchExcept
-
-
- ATTENTION: If the main progamm file doesn't have a length
- of 7964 Bytes it is DAMAGED!
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 7964 4974 37.5% 12-Mar-95 17:00:48 CPU-Control
- 11561 3944 65.8% 12-Mar-95 17:27:44 CPU-Control.doc
- 938 355 62.1% 16-May-92 02:38:56 CPU-Control.info
- 348 284 18.3% 15-Jan-95 01:11:10 PatchExcept
- 1304 551 57.7% 15-Jan-95 01:11:06 PatchExcept.asm
- 260 240 7.6% 12-Mar-95 17:03:18 RebootPatch
- 880 459 47.8% 12-Mar-95 16:11:14 RebootPatch.asm
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- 23255 10807 53.5% 21-Mar-95 14:53:04 7 files
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