On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 at 11:29:11, Mike MacNamara wrote: (ref: <009901c21845$52631370$c272893e@macnamarxmjd3y>)
> >- >From: "Roy Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:03 AM >Subject: Re: [ql-users] This is the LICENCE > > >> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard >> Zidlicky<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes >> <SNIP> >> >Absolutely not. If you are building hardware you can't simply >provide >> >the user with an official SMSQ version in EPROM and a patch on >a floppy >> >disk and expect him to apply the patch to the EPROM. >> No need. All versions of SMSQ/E for the Qxx (which is what we >are >> talking about here - possibly the GoldFire later but that will >have >> flash ROM) are LRESPR'able over the source code on the ROM. >That is what >> I do because I have an early version of the ROM. >Whets the point in having an EPROM if you have to LRESPR on >patches and extensions, apart from the waste of memory and >loading time, altering boots, etc. Who wants old code lying about >when they can have good clean updates instead, not me for sure. It is not a patch but the whole operating system. It is the way I do it, as the OS runs faster from RAM. -- Tony Firshman
