3 Feb
2007
3 Feb
'07
7:16 p.m.
On Feb 3, 2007, at 10:12 PM, woodelf wrote:
The Apple IIfx comes to mind..
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
In a way, I
suppose the disk controller was a clever design. But
it locked the CPU into 2MHz operation. The use of a simple
arithmetic checksum for each sector was not perhaps the most
reliable solution either. But the biggest problem is that disk
reading and writing required 100% attention from the CPU. On most
other computers that used dedicated LSI controllers, the
possibility existed for overlapped computation/disk access.
Like when?
I can't think of any small computer or PC that does that?