8280 and 9060/9090 ROM Comparison

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_cyberspace.org)
Date: 1999-10-23 05:50:52

The 8280 and 9060/9090 ROMs are almost identical.  There are a few bytes
of code added here and there.  Most of the differences are due to the
changed addresses from the few truly different bytes.

There are only 2 major differences:

The 9060/9090 ROM has a section of code at FB1C-FB38 that is not in the
8280 ROM.  The rest of the code in the 8280 is moved down (or the
9060/9090 is moved up) in memory.

The 8280 ROM has a routine at DA22-DA4A that appears to be a patch.  The
9060/9090 ROM has fill characters a those locations.

These two sets of ROMs do not appear to be patched versions of each other,
but separate systems assembled from slightly different versions of the
same source code.

The 300517-001 ROM image on funet is definitely defective.  Bit 3 is high
at EVERY address.

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