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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: ROM copying
Message-ID: <19959@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 21:15:13 GMT
References: <11E96006E00015B8@gacvx2.gac.edu>
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Reply-To: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.))
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In article <11E96006E00015B8@gacvx2.gac.edu>,
CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes:

> . . . I don't think a machine that
>   has been capable of copying and downloading a ROM card has ever existed
>   before, or at least not been owned by so many clever delving enthusiasts.

The HP-41 had plug-in ROMs, and there was even a function provided (in the
Extended Functions Module?) that would copy programs from ROM to RAM.  These
were user-language programs rather than machine-language, but the principle is
the same.


				-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
				"Always mount a scratch monkey."
				edp@jareth.enet.dec.com