[Coco] Booting Nitros9.

James Jones jejones3141 at gmail.com
Wed May 13 07:41:55 EDT 2020


On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 1:40 PM Alex Evans <varmfskii at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doesn't OS-9 search ROM for modules and mark for access so that they
> can be used by the system, so they don't have to be copied into RAM.
> Wasn't that the idea with the module in the FP ROM?
>

Yes, part of the boot process is searching through memory for modules in
ROM. It looks for the module header bytes and, when it finds them, looks
more closely, including a CRC check.


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