jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) (05/17/88)
> Aside to old-time KS hackers ... I purposely munged the checksum to I am not one, but I'll hazard a guess... > see what the A1000 would do with an invalid KS ... nothing! As if it > didn't even check it. So I munged more blocks (ASCII text, not code) > and it still booted fine. Whazzup? Depending on the damage inflicted I could suspect that is it some sort of error correcting scheme, it didn't complain since it fixed it itself. On a side note, did your screen change colors, like red or green at boot time? -- ________________________________________ This space would have been | Mike Davis LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK | ihnp4!ihlpm!jmdavis had I not written in it. |_________________________