11 Aug
2004
11 Aug
'04
6:32 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, ben franchuk wrote:
Also timing needs to be done too of the media. A laser
hole in the disk
could rely on software timer that is interupted when the floppy disk
controler gets a I/O error. I know the Color Computer uses software and
hardware wait instruction to do the dma transfer, and other sneeky
stuff. Also what about a drum memory where the timeing track needs to
recorded.
Interesting. Worth keeping in mind.
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