Subject: Re: Native boot [was Booter 1.8]
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Brad Salai <bsalai@cyber1.servtech.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/16/1995 06:01:11
> 
> On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:
> 
> > There's also no good, easy way to determine the amount of RAM in the
> > system (that I've found).  You can't even try probing because the
> > address map wraps around (i.e., in an 8MB Mac II, the memory address at
> > 8MB should fault, right?--wrong.  It's a copy of the byte at address 0).
> 
> Any way to disassemble the "About this Macintosh" box code?  :-)  MacOS 
> does it somehow.  The question is, how?
> 
This may be naive, but isn't that code in a resource associated with the
About this Macintosh box, and if it is, would the ResEdit disassembler do
it?

Remember, I'm not a programmer, and I don't even play one on tv.

Brad