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From: blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: TWGS ROM bugs
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Date: 7 May 89 01:46:24 GMT
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In article <890505222604.700890@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>A couple of people have mentioned one or more (maybe only one) known
>bugs in the TWGS ROM.  That prompts two questions:  are the bugs serious
>(i.e., capable of trashing your hard dirve, for instance) and does
>anyone know how Applied Engineering intends to deal with them?
	There's only one that I've heard of, and that's that GetCacheSize
doesn't return properly, and that would only cause problems if there were a
program which called the routine (which there aren't any that I'm aware of -
considering that this is the first generation of TWgs'es). The worst problem
that would be caused (if there is indeed a program that calls the routine) is
a system crash (yaknow, BONK!, and into the monitor).
	I have no idea what AE is doing about it... I suppose I should ask :)
I wouldn't worry about it, tho' - my TWgs has given me 0 problems in the couple
of weeks that I've been using it, which pretty much rules out it failing under
normal (non hardware failure) conditions, given the amount that I use my IIgs.
>TMPLee@Dockmaster.ncsc.mil


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		Jason Blochowiak (blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu)
			"Not your average iconoclast..."
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