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From: johnf@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A-max and LUCAS/FRANCES
Keywords: A-max Macintosh LUCAS FRANCES
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Date: 16 Oct 89 20:23:01 GMT
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In article <137@cbmtor.UUCP> timg@cbmtor.UUCP (Tim Grantham ) writes:
<...>
>The problem arises because the Mac operating system in the 64 Kb and 128 Kb
>ROMs uses the upper 8 bits in addresses for private things. 
<...>

Wait, let me get this straight:  Apple used the upper 8 bits of the address
for DATA?  What, did they hire European hackers to write their OS?  :-)

(Note smiley -- no offense intended to Europeans;  cf. the perennnial 
discussion on programming practices :-).

Didn't they read the Commodore programming guidelines from the first
DevCon? :-)


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