1 Jun
2000
1 Jun
'00
10:39 a.m.
Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> writes:
But can you dedcode 6&2 encoded bytes in realtime
on a 6502? Something
tells me it's not fast enough to do this.
If you're clever enough, you can do it. I previously cited several packages
that did it.
I wrote:
> Once the Intel 8271, WD 1771, and similar FDC
chips became available,
> any idiot could "design a disk controller". But if you compare Woz's
> design with other pre-FDC-chip designs, Woz's has 1/10 as many chips
> as some of them.
Sellam wrote:
6 to be exact.
7 to be exact, if you don't count the boot PROM, which isn't really
part of the disk controller.