HP9830 memory / was Re: Still looking for Infotek MX-30 RAM

Eric Smith spacewar at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 19:57:38 CST 2014


On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:26 AM, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Yes. I'm considering putting the mass storage ROM on the I/O slot card
>> also (similarly to how the sector buffer works), but since that ROM is
>> hard-addressed, that won't actually free up the ROM slot it would
>> normally occupy.
>
> I don't really see the point.

Since there has to be memory-mapped RAM on the board anyhow, it's
trivial to also have the ROM. It also adds zero components to my
design.


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