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From: bell@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enhancer 1.3 package
Keywords: NO ROMS!?
Message-ID: <5053@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 3 Nov 88 16:42:14 GMT
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In article <622@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>So why not compromise for the 3000:  EEPROMs?  The kernel would be
>distributed on disk, and you'd run a special program to load it into
>the EEPROMs, but thereafter you wouldn't need the floppy to power up.

>-Peter Schachte				"Clean water?  I'm for clean water."

Aren't you going to have incredibly horrible virus problems if you do this
sort of thing?  A malicious program could infect your machine to the point
that you couldn't disinfect it yourself.

You might survive by only having part of the kernel replaceable (so the
ability to load a new kernel does not depend on this replaceable code), but
then you have a considerable chunk of unmodifiable kickstart.


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Andrew Bell,  living a double life at bell@cs.unc.edu and acb@cs.duke.edu
"Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having
a 'War' on it?" -Rich Thompson, talk.politics.misc