[Coco] Anyone explain this in Level2 ioman?

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:36:24 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

Thanks Gene:

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Christopher R. Hawks
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