Hidden Built-In Functions are Easter Egg in SC.EXE ?
From
Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to
All on Sun May 14 05:26:13 2023
Late Saturday evening, I blundered into a thought.
For those of us frantically trying to unwrap the mysteries of planar
ADFs, there are functions NOT contained in the Pnnnn, Dnnnn, and Snnnn
ADFs, yet when you run System Programs, shucks, them there Built-In
Functions is thar! Yuck, yuck! Long pull on the jug o' Slivovice...
From a very crude probulation of SC.EXE from the [so boringly] common
Model 90/95 diags disk, I >think< the common functions are in SC.EXE,
and board-specific functions are in the planar ADFs.
I have seen the four [!] Diskette Drive Types and planar/system board
SCSI controllers. Possumbly more. It would be sensible to stuff common interfaces into SC.EXE and minimize the size / complexification of the system-specific ADFs.
My apologies for a lack of dis-assembly, but I'm not smart. Must have
been the mandatory pre-frontal lobotomy that comes with field grade... Remember, "A lobotomy brings them home every time"...
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