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From: rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Enhancer 1.3 package
Keywords: NO ROMS!?
Message-ID: <3434@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 21:24:43 GMT
References: <12839@eecae.UUCP> <6531@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <622@quintus.UUCP> <5053@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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In article <5053@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, bell@unc.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell) writes:
> 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.

     So, make it a hardware switch. :-)
You could pop a cover off somewhere and flip a switch to enable the EEPROMS
to be written.   I know, its a kludge, but thats what kludges are for.

> Andrew Bell,  living a double life at bell@cs.unc.edu and acb@cs.duke.edu


Rich Champeaux
Clemson University