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- >>>>> "Dan" == dan g <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> writes:
- In article <4fc0ne$3d@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> dan_g@ix.netcom.com writes:
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- Dan> I've been reading Inside Macintosh, and it seems rather
- Dan> simple to impliment. The Start Manager just searches in
- Dan> order, the System Folder, Extension Folder, and Control Panel
- Dan> Folder for INITs and CDEVs. It then loads the INIT resources
- Dan> in them and, if there, the SYSZ resource. Then it jumps to
- Dan> the begining of the block of memory with the INIT code
- Dan> resource. All items that are ment to stay in memory allocate
- Dan> space in the System Zone or System Heap (System 7), and then
- Dan> terminate the INIT process. I don't see this as being too
- Dan> hard to impliment. I know you at ARDI have your hands full,
- Dan> but if I were to make an App that could load extensions, how
- Dan> would Executor respond? Is there enough code in all of the
- Dan> managers to support this yet? And how would I increase the
- Dan> memory size with older resources by loading the SYSZ
- Dan> resource?
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- I think it is more difficult than you suspect. INITs and cdevs are
- going to patch out traps and they may make assumptions that will be
- incorrect. When they do, your app will totally mysteriously break.
- *I* could never discourage a person from attacking a difficult problem
- without being a hypocrite, but I suspect that we'll have it going over
- here before you have it going over there, and we don't plan on
- starting for a month or two.
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- Dan> -=Dan Guisinger=- dan_g@ix.netcom.com Proud registered user
- Dan> of Executor.
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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