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From: dhmyrdal@solan.unit.no (Dag H}kon Myrdal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Automatic Application startup
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.170252.21795@ugle.unit.no>
Date: 28 Jan 91 17:02:52 GMT
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In article <6408@ecs.soton.ac.uk> snb90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Brodie SN) writes:

|> >
|> >  Is there any way of taking applications and sticking them in EPROMs or
|> >EEPROMS etc. so that they can be permanently in the machine without
|> >running until required?  Maybe in the form of a filing system, it would
|> >then be possible to run the applications without having to access a
|> >disc. 
|> 
If you can live with the limitations of the loader, the standard system for loading off RM's, sprites o.l. from extension cards can be used.
For instance, on my SCSI-card, there is a 32K EPROM, of which only about
20Kbytes is used, so I can use the remaining to hold two relocatable modules,
a !setdir utility and a menu utility.... with no cost at all!
You will find a detailed description of the format of this kind of ROM-images
in the PRM.

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