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## Known differences between w11a and KB11-C (11/70)
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### Instruction fetch after `SPL`
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The `SPL` instruction in the 11/70 always fetched the next instruction
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regardless of current mode, pending device, or even console interrupts.
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This is known as the infamous _SPL bug_, see
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- https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2006-September/002692.html
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- https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2006-October/002693.html
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- https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2006-October/002694.html
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- https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2006-October/002695.html
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- https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2006-October/002701.html
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- https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2006-October/002695.html
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- https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2006-October/002702.html
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In the w11a, the `SPL` has 11/70 semantics in kernel mode, thus no
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traps or interrupts, the instruction after the `SPL` is unconditionally
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executed.
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But in supervisor and user mode `SPL` really acts as `NOOP`, so traps and
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interrupts are taken as for all other instructions.
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**--> The w11a isn't bug compatible with the 11/70.**
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