At 07:46 AM 12/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>What is A/ROSE for? No Mac OS installer I have encountered has ever given a
>description of if besides "Provides support for certain NuBus cards."
<snip>

There is/was a certain Token Ring nubus card that requred some special 
Real-Time handling by the OS. I seem to recall it had a complete 68000 
processor and was nearly a computer in and of itself. The A/ROSE was 
basically its operating system.

These days it just tends to crash things ;)

Scott Holder


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