[Coco] Shell and Applications in OS9Boot?

[Christopher Hawks]

Boisy G. Pitre said the following on 01/11/2010 08:02 PM:
> Not too big, not too small. That is the "secret sauce" of making a good bootfile.
> 
> The minimum recommended bootfile size is 0x4C01 bytes so that KrnP2 starts at $A000 or lower.  The reason is that the kernel uses the $A000-$BFFF for things like F$Move and copying the system/user stack.
> 
> Chris, I don't recall why $8200 is the maximum size, can you explain?

	I don't recall us ever figuring it out, but, there was a discussion in Nov 
2006 (Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Nitros9 Boot file)

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