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From: blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIgs Software Reboot
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Date: 22 Dec 89 09:27:13 GMT
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In article <37432@apple.Apple.COM> farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
>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, ... [I nuked part of my original article]
>	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...

	Why would there be any incompatibility? This stemmed from the
discussion of sparse ProDOS files - the point of looking at Apple's code (which
I ended up not really doing) was to determine how sparse files were handled
by the new boot block.

	Unless there's going to be some additional functionality added to the
boot block (and I can't think of anything that would fit into the framework of
what Apple appears to be interested in providing), there wouldn't be any
problems.

	Perhaps you thought I was going to actually steal code from Apple's
boot block and insert it into the SB 8/16 code? I thought I made it
sufficiently clear that my intent was to learn what Apple considered reasonable
handling of sparse files. Oh, well... I always was better with verbal
communication ;)

	Btw, this isn't my program that's being discussed - SmartBoot 8/16 was
published in Nibble (sorry, can't remember the author at the moment).

>| Cary Farrier				| Internet  : farrier@apple.com   |

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