[Coco] NitrOS-9 floppy images

[Boisy Pitre]

As someone pointed out, this padding has been in the kernel for some  
time; the choice of text was based on an inside joke that several of  
us on the early disassembly team were in on.

To my knowledge, this is the first time I recall anyone mentioning it.

On Apr 4, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Christopher Hawks wrote:


> Jim Hathaway said the following on 04/04/2009 07:36 PM:

>> Next thing you know we are going to be dealing with Spyware,  

>> Adware, worms,

>> trojans and the like. Maybe Ethernet on the CoCo is not such a good  

>> idea

>> after all...

>> Jim Hathaway

>> Web: http://hat3.net

>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Christian Lesage  

>> <hyperfrog at gmail.com>wrote:

>>> Tim Fadden wrote:

>>>

>>>> Yup, somethings in there!  Looks like this:

>>>>

>>>> www.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixen.comwww.katvixe

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Yeah, I just found it too. Hehe. Not really exciting, though...

>

> 	That's the padding in the kernel module. Check the source.

> NitrOS9/level2/modules/kernel/krn.asm

>

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