Subject: Re: Native boot [was Booter 1.8]
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
From: The Great Mr. Kurtz <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/15/1995 22:54:00
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > Any way to disassemble the "About this Macintosh" box code?  :-)  MacOS 
> > does it somehow.  The question is, how?
> 
> There are gestalt calls for it, but the problem is how to determine it
> in the first place...  I think the ROM does it as part of the power-on
> sequence and it stores it in some low-memory global or something.
> Perhaps.

Try: MemTop EQU $108        ; top of memory [pointer]
From: Encyclopedic Mac Rom p.897.

Would that be it, perchance?  It's within the Heap Zone Header, if that 
helps.

Later,

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