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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Device Driver over 32K
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Date: 24 Nov 89 02:10:35 GMT
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In article <32784@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP
	(David Phillip Oster) writes:
>Here are the problems with a device driver over 32k: 
>1.) a bug in the original Mac ROMS (circa '84) prevented resources from
>being larger than 32k. This is fixed in every machine since the the
>Mac512KE. Does your driver work on ALL macs?

I believe this bug only affects writing resources over 32k, and not
reading.  I remember using old versions of MacKermit, compiled with
the Sumacc compiler, where the CODE resource was well over 32k, and
having no problems on 64k ROM machines.

Earle R. Horton