• 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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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Sun May 14 08:16:23 2023
    I czeched, SC.EXE is on the refdisk.

    Louis Ohland wrote:

    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.

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