I've read that the workbench.library was moved out of ROM and onto disk in the v40.70 kickstart that came with the A4000T. This was to make room for the driver of the SCSI controller. Did this mean that the A4000T would have had trouble booting all earlier versions of Workbench disks, and booting from disk any application that used a stripped down Workbench? Or was the ROM written to search for the missing library across all available disks?
I know that there was a "search all disks for file" type option in at least one version of 1.4. I wonder if that came out of this kind of situation, where in development different libraries may get shifted in and out of where your ROM is mapped on a daily basis, and you need a way to direct the software to look elsewhere? Although having said that, I think if a library is not in ROM it actually scans the LIBS: folder for it before anything else.
I know that there was a "search all disks for file" type option in at least one version of 1.4. I wonder if that came out of this kind of situation, where in development different libraries may get shifted in and out of where your ROM is mapped on a daily basis, and you need a way to direct the software to look elsewhere? Although having said that, I think if a library is not in ROM it actually scans the LIBS: folder for it before anything else.
