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From: LMB7421@RITVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: re: all the messages I got over break...and then some.
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Date: 5 Jan 88 04:17:00 GMT
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Re:  booting your 3.5 with ROMDISK set as boot:

As far as I know, you can't boot a 3.5 drive when you have RAMDISK or
ROMDISK set as boot drives.  Since only the first disk in a chain can be
booted (ie, slot 5, drive 1, or slot 6, drive 1), the system reorganizes
the order of the drives, putting the specified boot drive first, followed
by later disks.  In the configuration you have, the ROMDISK is 5,1 and the
3.5 would be 5,2.  If you want to boot the drive, you would have to switch
your boot over to slot 5 or scan.

As for the MemorySaver and other "ROMdrives", how do they work?  Is it a
battery RAM backup, or does it actually have ROM, and how does it look to
the computer?  If you have two memory cards, are they sequenced together, or
can you only access one of them?

Re: Finder

What use is the Desktop?  Is there a program which uses it yet?  It seems
pointless to have a desktop if it can't be filled.

And, last but not least, I am in the process of writing a VT220 emulator
for the GS and was wondering - is there a quick way (from machine language)
to determine the input and output points of a serial card (or the GS port)?


Les Barstow
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