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From: fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: IBM been goowy for along tyme
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Date: 10 Feb 91 03:31:39 GMT
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Most of the arguments about having the Mac GUI functions in
ROM or RAM is irrelevant because many (most?) of the functions
are patched with routines from the System file (and are stored
in RAM, of course) at runtime. 

The effects of the toolbox code getting munged by a rogue
program are no more severe than several other parts of memory
getting stepped on, e.g. low memory globals, stack, etc.


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