19 Sep
2015
19 Sep
'15
11:12 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 01:49:38PM -0400, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
I would think the fixed head media swapped
faster than the RK's
unlessthee fixed head media was really slow... Ed#
The DS/RS disks certainly weren't slow ... but an RK could still be fast
enough to be useful. I'm thinking the hard part would be shoveling out
enough space for a sector buffer, so that it could do word insert/extract
operations and make the RFILE/WFILE calls still act more or less like the
DMAR/DMAW instructions on the DF/RF. My understanding is that RKs as
data disks used different calls (and weren't file-structured).
John Wilson
D Bit