boot sectors questions

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From: curzon
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1986 19:40

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Can anyone give the lowdown on the boot sectors of an Atari disk?

ie: how the "boot" ROM routines work, 
    what parameters are picked up from the disk,
    where are they located,
    what functions served by the boot sector code vs
     the DOS itself
    differences between the boot sectors on a DOS disk
     and a "boot" disk
    and anything else that is interesting or relevant!

                    Thanks

				Dick Curzon
				Digital Equipment of Canada
                                PO Box 13000
                                Kanata Ontario      K2K 2A6
                                Canada.


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