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From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (jetzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AppleWorks & RESET
Message-ID: <96@studsys.mu.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 88 20:22:29 GMT
References: <8804012258.aa12228@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lines: 28
Summary: ProDOS & RESET

In article <8804012258.aa12228@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>, AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") writes:
> RESET is a hardware thing, and any piece of code running when you hit RESET
> gets instantly stopped (well, at the end of the machine language instruction
> currently executing) and *no* information is recorded about exactly what
> the processor was doing at the time, so the program can't just pick up where
> it left off, even if data has been left in a corrupted state!
> [ .... ]
> 
> ProDOS can get pretty confused if you hit reset during a ProDOS call, by the
> way.

It seems that the earlier versions of ProDOS had this nasty habit of trashing
something like block 2 (the key block of the directory).  Way back when I wsa
still programming under DOS 3.3, I would sometimes hit reset to stop a disk
access (I've matured since then :-)).  When I first started programming under
ProDOS, I did the same thing, until I trashed a couple of disks doing this....

don't
you
hate
line
counters
?
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Mike Jetzer
"If you can't be right, be forceful"
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