24 Aug
2001
24 Aug
'01
10:44 a.m.
At 03:35 am 24/08/2001 -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
Since there were, at the time Commodore put these
devices on the market,
external HPIB-interfaced HDC's, HDD units, FD units, etc, including
printers,
it
wasn't a TERRIBLE choice, though it wasn't
necessarily the path to the
cheapest
solution.
I don't dispute it - in fact, the idea of intelligent peripherals is an
excellent one; why waste the computing power of the host on menial tasks
like driving a printer, or disk drive? As you say, it wasn't necessarily
the cheapest route available, but I'd argue it would be just as cheap to do
something like that now - since processors, RAM, etc. are all dirt cheap.
In fact, isn't that what SCSI is all about?
Cheers!
Ade.
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