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From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: boot disks
Message-ID: <2515@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 05:53:19 GMT
References: <8803281528.AA09139@mitre-bedford.ARPA> <6071@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: Autoboot info coming

In article <6071@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, swklassen@trillium.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen) writes:
> In article <8803281528.AA09139@mitre-bedford.ARPA> jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA writes:
> >The structure of the boot sector is described in gory detail in "Inside Atari
> >DOS" and I think also in "de re Atari".  I don't have these references at hand
> >right now but if you can't locate them I can try to tell you the salient
> >points.
> 
> Please post this info to the net.  I'm sure that there are enough people
> who do not have access to these publications but would appreciate the
> info to warrent posting it.

Due to this and other requests received through E-mail, I am in the process
of composing a description of the boot process, necessary disk format, and
so on, which I will try to get posted to this newsgroup within the next few
days.  I'm taking the info presented in the Atari OS User's Manual and ren-
dering it into comprehensible terms.  I don't know 'bout YOU, but I've always
felt that there were lots of huge gaps in the docs for this machine, and what's
there often isn't very clear!  I'm trying to avoid that in my summary, so 
please bear with me.

Chris Chiesa


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