Re: OS calls.

[ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith)]

Line F is used on 030 machines for floating point, I think; and it's used
by early TOS versions (the ones that don't run on 030's :-)) internally
by the AES to call the VDI.

I would be quite surprised if the actual calling mechanism (trap vs.
line A or line F) turned out to be a significant factor in system call
timings. I would think that the context save/restore code would be the
most significant part (at least for MiNT). Anything that we could do
to speed those up, and/or to generally speed up the kernel's handling
of system calls once control reaches the kernel, would be a big win.

Eric