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From: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A scheme for updating/patching gemdos
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Date: 6 Sep 88 10:39:02 GMT
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In Info-Atari16 Digest #385, ssyx!koreth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Steven Grimm)
writes:
>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 ...

This is exactly what they did, and no, there are no undocumented LineA traps.

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