On May 21, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Chris Tribo wrote:

> On May 21, 2005, at 12:17 AM, Dan LaBell wrote:
>
>> Been following this thread for a while...
>>
>> If its all pure forth, and the virtual machines are equivalent, I'd 
>> tend to think firmware specific.  I just have a nagging doubt that 
>> maybe the system disk patches
>> could do more than what's visible in forth.  If they say, used forth 
>> to wedge in
>> a some machine code, to modify maybe the forth kernel itself, how 
>> could one tell?
>
> To my knowledge the only place to stick something that is persistent 
> is in NVRAM or PRAM. Apple's nvram command in OS X doesn't show 
> anything out of the ordinary.
>
I may have been  confused here, I was reading system disks patches as 
equivalent to firmware updates.  People often complain about having to 
have OS9 writable partition to use them, people who have aquired 
machines to have install netbsd and have no macos.