On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:54:26PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> > I'd argue against your assertion that the new bootloader isn't RISC OS
> > specific, though. It's written in BASIC for a start... I was referring to
> > the concept of a bootloader similar to the CATS one.
> 
> I've always heard Acorn staff referring to STB OS and NC OS in such a
> way as to imply a family tree
[snip]

I know. I did work for them...

My point is that the whole of the NCOS ROM can be removed and replaced by
something new. Therefore we need something that can be jumped
straight into and perform sufficient hardware initialisation to bootstrap
an OS. Without [NC|STB|RISC]OS, there will be no BASIC, no OS_Memory. 

This could also be used on RiscStation hardware to avoid the
astronomical costs of RISCOS4 if it not needed.

Hope this clears matters up,

-- 
Stephen