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Mac OS ROM Image File

The Mac OS ROM image file (also called the bootinfo file) is named Mac OS ROM. It includes

The Nanokernel and the 68LC040 Emulator are low-level Mac OS initialization components that were part of BootPowerPC code in previous CPU ROMs. They are now included in the Mac OS ROM image.

Complementarily, CPU-specific hardware initialization code has been relocated into the boot ROM as described in the previous section.


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