Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nbires!hao!husc6!bbn!levin From: levin@bbn.COM (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is there a recoverable RAM disk for the Mac? Message-ID: <4250@cc5.bbn.COM> Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 12:33:27 EST Article-I.D.: cc5.4250 Posted: Thu Oct 29 12:33:27 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 06:11:53 EST References: <691@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <2487@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> <3320@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: levin@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 20 Keywords: exitToShell Summary: This is machine specific In article <3320@uwmcsd1.UUCP> hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Robert Hammen) writes: :In article <2487@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> joe@cbdkc1.UUCP (Joseph T. Judge) writes: :> . . . . Hit the Programmer's Switch (into that goofy :>Dialog Box or MacsBug) and type: :> SM 0 A9F4 :> G 0 : :An alternative way is to type the following after hitting the interrupt switch: : G 40F6D8 This only works on Mac Plus and 512KEnhanced. This magic number is the actual address of the exitToShell routine itself in ROM, and it is different on the SE and II. I don't have my stuff here and can't tell you what it is for the SE (but it is different) -- but it is better to use the trap itself, which is machine independent. /JBL -- UUCP: {harvard, husc6, etc.}!bbn!levin ARPA: levin@bbn.com