[Coco] Anyone explain this in Level2 ioman?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 13:35:44 Christopher R. Hawks did opine:

> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:39:40 +0100
> 
> Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Robert Gault wrote:
> > > In trying to get a working 6309 Level1, I've noticed that Level2
> > > ioman.asm contains many  IFGT Level-1 conditionals. This is
> > > pointless unless the code could work with Level1. Well the code
> > > does not work with Level1, so why are these conditionals present?
> > > 
> > > Can anyone explain this?
> > 
> > I guess there originally was one common file for both level1 and
> > level2 builds. At some point someone found it better to maintain
> > separate versions, but the level2 version was not cleaned up to remove
> > the level1 conditionals.
> > 
> > Tormod
> > 
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> 	According to:
> HAWKSoft(chrish)$ hg log level2/modules/ioman.asm
> 
> changeset:   1307:edce5716d722
> user:        boisy
> date:        Tue Sep 02 19:30:48 2003 +0000
> summary:     Started back-port of IOMan to Level One
>  and
> changeset:   2414:e96eb55b10b5
> user:        boisy
> date:        Tue Jan 26 03:51:52 2010 +0000
> summary:     Made progress in backporting to Level 1
> 
> then (obviously) never completed or removed (might not have been
> practical).
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft

Chuckle, your sig slays me Chris.  I needed a good laugh.

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