Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Aug 12 16:12:43 2004

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi Jules
> Here is what I've found. It is a disk drive emulator.
> Unless a PC is DMA driven, bit banging a floppy is not practical.

Disk I/O without DMA is not practical. But it IS possible.
Consider the PCJr and Tandy 1000, both of which do disk I/O
without DMA on 4.77MHz? machines.
Received on Thu Aug 12 2004 - 16:12:43 BST

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