25 Nov
2006
25 Nov
'06
11:20 a.m.
On 25 Nov 2006 at 13:29, Dave Dunfield wrote:
I didn't mention the Tarbell - I was going by the subject line.
Well - then I guess NorthStar was obscene... :-)
My comment was directed toward your reference to the Tarbell
controller, not the NS. The
single-density controller does indeed have 256 byte of ROM (in three chips!)
The double-density one has 512 bytes of ROM.
A question crops up: why? What's the point--you need only enough to
load a sngle sector. Was the NS controller so badly implemented
that it required that much code to read a single sector?