[Coco] NitrOS-9 floppy images

[Frank Pittel]

I've seen it mentioned somewhere in the past a few times. I forget if it
was here or on coco3. It was always explained as a joke and no one ever
persued it past that.

I would have used something different like "www.chicagobears.com" or "www.nfl.com"
though.

Frank


On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 09:39:26PM -0500, Boisy Pitre wrote:
> As someone pointed out, this padding has been in the kernel for some  
> time; the choice of text was based on an inside joke that several of us 
> on the early disassembly team were in on.
>
> To my knowledge, this is the first time I recall anyone mentioning it.
>
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Christopher Hawks wrote:
>
>> Jim Hathaway said the following on 04/04/2009 07:36 PM:
>>> Next thing you know we are going to be dealing with Spyware, Adware, 
>>> worms,
>>> trojans and the like. Maybe Ethernet on the CoCo is not such a good  
>>> idea
>>> after all...
>>> Jim Hathaway
>>> Web: http://hat3.net
>>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Christian Lesage  
>>> <hyperfrog at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>> Tim Fadden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yup, somethings in there!  Looks like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> www.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixe
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I just found it too. Hehe. Not really exciting, though...
>>
>> 	That's the padding in the kernel module. Check the source.
>> NitrOS9/level2/modules/kernel/krn.asm
>>
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