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From: dzenc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Dan Zenchelsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: New Kickstart Release for the Amiga 3000 available
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.030648.12916@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 03:06:48 GMT
References: <82.2728F58D@myamiga.UUCP> <29301@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius)
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In article <29301@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>In article <82.2728F58D@myamiga.UUCP> smp@myamiga.UUCP (Steve Palm) writes:
>>
>>
>> BN> 
>> BN>                 (Setpatch 36.4)
>> Hey, no offense, but why do you still need a SetPatch utility?  I thought it 
>>was only there to fix bugs in the ROMS.
>
>What's really a scary thought is what functions they patch...
><apologies if any secrets are revealed, this was the version Cmdre sent me that
> they said was public...>
>
> My SetPatch reveals that they patch: Lock() Open().
>
>David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu

Before anyone panics, there was some buggy software which counted on DOS
returning values in D1 as well as D0 (a side effect of BCPL), and I believe
these patches are merely a compatibility measure to keep the most programs
possible running under 2.0 by continuing to do this.  NOTE: This does not
excuse these programs, nor does it mean YOU should do this!!!
 
-Dan



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