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From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMAX: Mac Emulator
Message-ID: <947@applix.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 14:19:07 GMT
References: <12133@louie.udel.EDU> <408@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <408@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> dwd@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (david.w.dykstra) writes:
>
>How can it run the Macintosh OS ROMS if the only connection it has to
>the CPU is through the external disk drive port?  Are all the proper
>processor signals available at that port to be able map ROMS into
>the processor address space?  Is there something I'm missing?

This is just a guess.

I don't think there is any "mapping" of the ROMS occurring.  Instead,
I would imagine that the AMAX box simulates a floppy for the purpose of
supplying the ROM code which is transferred by the AMAX boot code to RAM. 

-scott