Jeff Hellige skrev:
> The Indus GT was one nice drive and they made it for other
>machines than just the Atari line. It was interesting to sit there
>and listen to it while watching the track readout change. I've never
>torn one apart to check but I'm told that they used a Z80 in the
>drive to control everything which would be interesting since that'd
>make the chip in the drive as powerful as the main CPU of the machine
>it was attached to.
One example of a drive with as much CPU power as the host computer is the
Commodore 1541 and similar drives. DOS? The DOS is running on the drive, not
the computer. =)
I've even seen demos which used the drive's processor as an extra CPU. The
graphics would slow down during disk access.
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Received on Thu Nov 01 2001 - 09:56:31 GMT