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From: elwell
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1987 17:40

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Does anyone have a good explanation of why the resource manager in the
128K ROMs contains support for Suitcase (or perhaps its predecessor DA
Mob)?  To be specific, why InitResources looks in the system folder
for a file of type 'INIT' and creator 'dMob', and executes the INIT
128 resource out of it?  The OpenDeskAcc call also does some things
having to do with this.

I can see how having support built into the ROMs makes life easier,
but is it really appropriate?  I can understand putting things like
Object Pascal method dispatches etc. into the ROMs, but stuff for a
non-Apple product?

Please note that I have nothing against the Mac ROMs :-), or in fact
Suitcase (which is a bargain at twice the price).  In fact, it
increases my confidence in the stability of Suitcase.  But stil...

-- 
Clayton M. Elwell

    UUCP: ...!cbosgd!cis.ohio-state.edu!elwell
    ARPA: elwell@ohio-state.arpa (if you feel lucky...)

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