Yep, the only time this was ever trully useful was so you could put an a.out directly into
the boot block I think.
During normal operations the a.out header was never actually loaded into the user memory.
On Jan 6, 2015, at 8:46 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Ronald Natalie wrote:
In non protected mode (407 magic) everything was
fair game.
Which reminds me, I wonder how many people know that "407" was the 40's
instruction that, if the a.out header was present, would neatly skip over
it...