Re: How do you detect warmboot?

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From: Allan Pratt
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1988 00:05

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In article <8810261229.AA25657@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 
ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET writes:
> From: Julian F. Reschke         (02501) 13279        ONM07    at DMSWWU1A
> I would like to thank Mr. Pratt for his good tips concerning
> reset-resident programs and data. However, there is a not yet officially
> documented 'feature' in ALL TOS-versions that allows to auto-restart
> programs after a warmboot (using a magic number). It would be nice to
> see this mechanism documented, too.
> // Julian F. Reschke

Huh? There aren't any ROM version dependencies in that code.  The two
system variables _memtop and _sysbase are nailed down: they don't move. 
There are no other addresses or funny features used in that code.  What
could be more version-independent?

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt

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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
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Subject: Re: How do you detect warmboot?
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Date: 28 Oct 88 00:05:31 GMT
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