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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Write Protect Tab (was Re: INIT 29: a brief description)
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Date: 22 Jan 89 22:55:34 GMT
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In article <306@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
_>Is that strictly true?  Is the write-protect a hardware interlock, or
_>could it be circumvented by circumventing the file manager and
_>twiddling the disk directly?
This has been discussed here before. The last time the topic came up, the
conclusion was that it was a hardware interlock.