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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Boot Blocks (was IIGS Software Reboot)
Message-ID: <37492@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 89 20:04:33 GMT
References: <3388@sage.cc.purdue.edu> <0ZWjDCW00WAB00WG8F@andrew.cmu.edu> <4118@puff.cs.wisc.edu> <37432@apple.Apple.COM> <4136@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <4136@puff.cs.wisc.edu> blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
 [...stuff about not understanding why there would be incompatiblity...]

	The point I am making is that if you depend on the machine booting
	in a specific manner, then there's a reasonable chance that things
	will change later and you will have to revise your software for
	each new change.  What happens when say, a new FST which allows
	booting off of that file system appears?  Are you going to revise
	SB 8/16 again?  There is probably a more elegant solution to
	the problem, perhaps intercepting the boot process at a later
	step common to both P8 and GS/OS.

>--
>      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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