farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) (12/23/89)
In article <4136@puff.cs.wisc.edu> blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) writes: [...stuff about not understanding why there would be incompatiblity...] The point I am making is that if you depend on the machine booting in a specific manner, then there's a reasonable chance that things will change later and you will have to revise your software for each new change. What happens when say, a new FST which allows booting off of that file system appears? Are you going to revise SB 8/16 again? There is probably a more elegant solution to the problem, perhaps intercepting the boot process at a later step common to both P8 and GS/OS. >-- > Jason Blochowiak - blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu or jason@madnix.uucp > "Education, like neurosis, begins at home." - Milton R. Sapirstein Cary Farrier -- +---------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Cary Farrier | Internet : farrier@apple.com | | Apple II Systems Software Engineering | UUCP : apple!farrier | | Apple Computer, Inc. | Fax : (408) 974-1704 | | 20525 Mariani Ave. | AppleLink : FARRIER | | Cupertino, CA 95014 | or farrier@applelink.apple.com | +---------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | I don't speak for Apple Computer, our products do. | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+