On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:

> 	With sufficient documentation of the interface,
> it may indeed be unnecessary, but:
> 
> 1) If we ever get native bootloading going, the MacOS will
>    never have run, which means those 6502 will be empty

Since Mac OS boots from devices that are IOP-controlled, I strongly
suspect those 6502s are loaded with the IOP kernel before you'd get
loaded.  I certainly don't know for sure, but the odds are in favor of it.


> 2) What happens if something somehow resets the 6502?
>    I would imagine that the loaded program goes away.

No idea if that's even possible.  Dunno.


Later,
David

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