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- From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: system software idea
- Message-ID: <71211@apple.Apple.COM>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 06:44:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.143119.43@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu> <1992Aug14.005139.673@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1992Aug14.005139.673@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10327@nusunix2.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE) writes:
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- Randy Shackelford writes:
- >: I got an even better setup than that. I just set the right bit in battery
- >: RAM and they show up all the time. Thanx to Eric Mulholland. ROM 03's are
- >: so neat, everyone should get one. So I have done homebrew BRAM mods to nuke
- >: the icons off my boot screen and get the ROM da's to show up. Are there any
- >: other neat BRAM tricks anyone knows about for me to try?
-
- >You mean you can actually program the Rom 03 battery RAM to
- >contain programs which can be executed? [...]
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- N N OOO ! The system does not execute programs from
- NN N O O ! Battery RAM.
- N N N O O !
- N N N O O ! I don't mean to yell, but that would be
- N N N O O ! a really dangerous state of affairs, since
- N NN O O it could allow viruses to spread by way of
- N N OOO ! Battery RAM. -- It doesn't happen.
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- All the things Randy mentioned are covered by the ROM or the System Software
- checking a particular bit in Battery RAM and behaving differently depending
- on the setting.
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- Other things to try. Well, there's a bit that makes System 6 *not* sort
- your desk accessories alphabetically, and one that makes the mouse pointer
- flicker less with accelerators.
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- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
- Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875
- Internet:dlyons@apple.com | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875
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