Re: Mac Family Ref Manual

In article <fiq3in$9lb$1$8302bc10@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
 wrote:

> The 'Inside Mac' series stops with volume V

That is incorrect. There is a Volume VI. However, it is different from 
the other volumes, in that it describes what is in the OS (System 7). 
The other volumes all appeared to describe the software that ****pped 
with new hardware.

> By the time of the Macintosh IIfx, Apple had already developed the idea
> of System calls you could use to find out where the video was mapped to
> memory

To quote volume VI: "You should never access hardware directly".

Reinder