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Article #6687Re: Shareware MAC
From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 18:00
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 18:00
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In article <1989Dec6.222827.16338@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> nemeth@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Gabe Nemeth) writes:
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>One thing a lot of people don't realize is that the amount of necessary code
>in the roms is quite small. Thats because the system file contains patches
>to the different revisions of mac roms that overlay buggy or outdated code.
>So - all the roms have to contain is stuff found in the basic 64k roms.
Not true. There are many routines that were added to the 128K ROMs that
were never made available as disk patches. (For example, there are a lot of
Resource Manager extensions and QuickDraw calls.) So a 64K ROM + System
Disk does not equal a 128K ROM.
--
Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist
Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B Cupertino, CA 95014
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Shareware MAC Message-ID: <5663@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 7 Dec 89 18:00:50 GMT References: <89120107511652@masnet.uucp> <PORTUESI.89Dec4153459@tweezers.esd.sgi.com> <1989Dec6.222827.16338@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 19