Dave Park wrote:
> It's been mentioned that vanilla QDOS/Minerva doesn't run happily on
> 68EC020 due to CPU differences. The GC/SGC copies and patches the OS to
> work with the EC020 CPU, and to relocate certain resources.
>
> My questions are: what are the differences? How does the GC/SGC boot the
> unaltered OS to copy the OS to the GC to reboot with the patched version?
>
> I tried reading out and comparing the SGC patched version, but I don't have
> the knowledge to read what is an '020 change and what is a change for moved
> locations of resources.

No need to, the GC boot rom sources are part of the SMSQ/E source
tree. Download sys.zip from Wolfgang's site and check out the sys_gold
directory.

Marcel

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