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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Resident (bootable) PD Ram disk available ?
Message-ID: <1189@atari.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 19:11:29 GMT
References: <1497@netmbx.UUCP>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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At the risk of starting flame wars, I'd like to address this issue:

In article <1497@netmbx.UUCP> alderaan@netmbx.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) writes:
> Er, does anyone have a [reset-]resident [RAMdisk] for use with US/UK ROMS ?
> 
> Here in germany, EVERYONE has such a RAM disk, but, they make dirty direct
> access to ROM. Result : Bombs everywhere !!!

It's too bad that all the reset-resident-RAMdisk authors in Germany are
lazy.  You really don't have to use illegal RAM/ROM locations for a
reset-resident utility! I wish I knew what places they were using, so I
could tell them how they could have accomplished the same thing legally. 

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
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