Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system RTE6/VM?

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Wed Dec 10 17:22:43 2003

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 08:42, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> To me, it's pointless to create a design that's arbitrarily limited to
> just one encoding scheme if you don't have to. When you can simplify
> the design *and* make it more universal, why not?

To this end, it seems reasonable to have the simulator be given some
knowledge of the thing being simulated, for example, the bit transition
timestamp (delta-T between transitions) could be a small value, and a
DIPswitch (real or virtual) set the granularity (100K/ 1M/
10M/bits/sec), that sort of thing. Generic-enough variables to handle
all or some vast percentage of possible drives.
Received on Wed Dec 10 2003 - 17:22:43 GMT