Re: Xmas question?

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From: Barry Twycross
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <199712241939161679245@thebeast.demon.co.uk>,
thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk (Steve Rogers) wrote:

>Could you point me to some free Internet resources on the subject of
>"how Mac OS starts up"?  I've realised that I know very little about the
>Mac equivalents of EIEIO.SYS, M$DUD.SYS & COMMIC.CON, and nothing at all
>about how it sets up and manages its RAM space**.

You could try <http://devworld.apple.com>. This information is somehere
inside Inside Mac, or the tech notes. I can't think of any specifics, but
I'm sure I've read it somewhere.

IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS are sort of rolled up into the System file. There is
no clearly defined hardware abstraction, so no separation of these.
COMMAND.COM is sort of like the Finder.

RAM is covered by the memory manager and the process manager chapters.

-- 
Barry
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