Re: Superdrive Controllers $59

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) wrote (among other things):

: GS/OS would also require a new stub OS loader, the equivalent of the
: PRODOS file in the root directory.  This would load the main components
: of GS/OS and tell the OS that HFS is the boot FST, which would take over
: for subsequent file loading.  In theory, this part could be in ROM, but
: that might tie the system down to the OS too much.

...And as one who had to do an OS upgrade on an Amiga 3000, let me tell
you that ROM is a very inconvenient place for operating system code...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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