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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Comments on STE -- (un)known facts
Message-ID: <1842@atari.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 22:09:30 GMT
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rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes:

| Is there an approved method for software to discover what
| platform it's running on, other than (KLUDGE ALERT!) checking the TOS
| revision #?

Yes, there is a new OS service offered in the ROM, beginning with
STE TOS, called the Cookie Jar.  The startup code in the new ROM versions
set up an area of memory with "cookies" which describe various system
configuration options, and with values for the cookies that describe
what's actually there.  The Cookie Jar documentation is available to
developers now, and we will be making it available to the general public
shortly.

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   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
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