Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!calgary!maloff
From: maloff@calgary.UUCP (Sheldon Maloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: rus rumor!
Keywords: NIGHTMARES!
Message-ID: <1705@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 22:49:26 GMT
References: <3152@crash.cts.com> <264@cadomin.UUCP> <58141@sun.uucp>
Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
Lines: 18

In article <58141@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> .... There is no RAM in the clock
> chip (and even if you have a clock chip with RAM it only has 4 bit nybbles
> and would never get executed anyway). It can't be done, period. 

I was under the assumption that the Spirit Technologies memory board
for the a1000 (which I have) has a 2K battery backed up ram on board.
I say assumption because I haven't looked at the specs lately, but that
would mean it could be done, no?  That memory on the clock is meant
to hold stuff during power down, and it would make no sense to have
2K of battery backed up ram only to have it wiped on power up.  Then
again this would be a very limited virus.

|| Sheldon                               ----========== \\        -----======||
|| maloff@calgary.UUCP                      -----====== //  Calgary, Alberta ||
|| {ihnp4!alberta}!calgary!maloff               -----== \\  Past Host of the ||
|| .. eventually, we'll all be scaled by zero and  ---= //  '88 Winter Games ||
|| converge upon the origin ... then we'll party!    -= \\              ---==||