Central Point Option floppy controller

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Sep 15 22:00:52 1999

<> really do run in one clock cycle (rather than four). Also, they run at
<> up to 100 MHz. They would be much more suitable for implementing a
<> floppy disk controller.

Why not just toss a cray XMP against the problem. Seriously, in 1979ish
apple managed to do it with a little (very little) at something less than
2mhz... why would a PIC at a gazillion MHz be the hot ticket when the real
need is enough ram to store all them bits!

When you consider the data rate for DD 8" is 500kBits/sec the bandwidth is
not that bad.

Allison
Received on Wed Sep 15 1999 - 22:00:52 BST