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From: n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System Startup
Summary: boot process info wanted also
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Date: 10 Apr 91 15:58:59 GMT
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In article <BRAD.91Apr9152103@gobi.jpl.nasa.gov> brad@gobi.jpl.nasa.gov (Brad Pickering) writes:
>IM Vol V, in the Start Manager chapter, describes the information on a volume
>used during system startup, but there seems to be alot of information missing
>here.  I am most interested in what is needed to create a disk that will
>execute some code from these boot blocks.
>

I too, am interested in finding information about this boot process.  IM is
very vague about it - it just mentions that the machine boots.  Specifically,
I'm intereseted in the boot process of the Mac Plus if it differs from
other macs.

<<opinion on>>
I think the reason there isn't much info about the boot process is so
Apple can further protect its babies (MacOS and AUX) by not allowing alter-
nate OS's to run on the machine.  If the boot information is not released,
or at least all of the info, no other (possibly better) operating system
can run on a macintosh.
  This is just my opinion, but if it is at all true, it's a shame!  My mac
could be several times more functional than it is now (for me).
>>opinion off<<

Anyway, I'd appreciate any info - maybe somebody could write a short docu-
ment and zap it to the sumex archives.

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             | Brent P. Burton      | n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu   |
             | Texas A&M University | Computer Science/Physics |
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