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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A scheme for updating/patching gemdos
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Date: 1 Sep 88 16:49:42 GMT
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In article <1148@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>Somebody in Germany did it... I don't know how they got rid of Line-F
>and still crammed the OS into 192K of ROM, but they did.

Perhaps they used line-A instead?  There can't be THAT many line-F traps --
certainly not enough that you couldn't use A100 and up instead (assuming that
the documented line-A calls are the only ones that are used; but even if there
are undocumented calls, I find it hard to imagine there being enough of them
to stop this from working...)  That seems like a nice clean solution to the
problem to me.

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