Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!farrier
From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIgs Software Reboot
Message-ID: <37432@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 89 18:11:21 GMT
References: <3388@sage.cc.purdue.edu> <0ZWjDCW00WAB00WG8F@andrew.cmu.edu> <4118@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <4118@puff.cs.wisc.edu> blochowi@rt7.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>
>	As for looking into it - I don't think it'd be all that difficult to
>disassemble Apple's new boot code just to see what it does differently, and
>then add that to SB 8/16, but as far as distributing it, I dunno. I suppose
>that I could manually generate a psuedo-diff file (what lines to delete, what
>to add), but that'd probably be a pain. Anyone have other suggestions?

	Excellent idea if you are into incompatiblity.  What happens
	if we change the boot blocks again?  And again?  Your programs
	will have to change too...

>--
>      Jason Blochowiak - blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu or jason@madnix.uucp
>       "Education, like neurosis, begins at home." - Milton R. Sapirstein

Cary Farrier
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