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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The REAL virus problem
Message-ID: <3104@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 21:54:18 GMT
References: <7967@g.ms.uky.edu> <265@coplex.UUCP> <7977@g.ms.uky.edu> <1401@uoregon.UUCP> <3091@cbmvax.UUCP> <7993@g.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <7993@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>In article <3091@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:

>I've got the Addison Wesley "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Exec"
>manual on my lap.  On page C-8 begins a section called "THE BOOT PROCESS".
>
>This section describes what happens once the ROM kernel starts reading
>in the boot sectors off disk.  I see no mention whatsoever of a memory
>location that execution can be optionally handed to before it starts
>reading the disk.

Who said anything about a memory location ?  That has nothing to
do with it.  Read the first 4 words of the second paragraph
carefully.  (In my copy, its "The code is called")

If its not clear from this, then rejoice, for you will be writing
no boot virus programs :-)
-- 
andy finkel		{ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy 
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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