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From: bird@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (j.l.walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //e Monitor ROM documentation
Message-ID: <1350@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 89 12:28:22 GMT
References: <34237@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <34237@apple.Apple.COM>, by dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons):
> In article <1322@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> bird@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (j.l.walters) writes:
>>I have a friend who is looking for documentation on the //e
>>monitor ROMs...


>     A      CCCC    K   K   !!    The published reference material
>    A A    C        K  K    !!    *is* a complete reference for all
>   A   A   C        K K     !!    of the routines in ROM that are
>   AAAAA   C        KK      !!    guaranteed to be there.
>   A   A   C        K K     !!
>   A   A   C        K  K          It is very definitely in your best
>   A   A    CCCC    K   K   !!    interest *not* to write programs that
>                                  assume more things about the ROM than
>   are documented officially.  That is, if you are at all concerned with
>   whether your software works on any future Apple products, at least.
> 

I wasn't questioning whether the Apple Monitor book was
complete. It is. However, it has no text (other than instruction
comments) that explain the functions of the various routines.

I'm referring to the thin little book that came with or I bought,
can't remember now, with my //e. It is nothing more than an
assembly listing. As Pogo once said, "figuring out monitor ROM
listings is like untangling a can of bait - quiet but absorbing
work."

If you have another book in mind, then that is exactly what my
friend is looking for and we would love to know its name, etc.
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