1 Nov
2001
1 Nov
'01
1:56 a.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
The Indus GT was one nice drive and they made it for
other
machines than just the Atari line. It was interesting to sit there
and listen to it while watching the track readout change. I've never
torn one apart to check but I'm told that they used a Z80 in the
drive to control everything which would be interesting since that'd
make the chip in the drive as powerful as the main CPU of the machine
it was attached to.
One example of a drive with as much CPU power as the host computer is the
Commodore 1541 and similar drives. DOS? The DOS is running on the drive, not
the computer. =)
I've even seen demos which used the drive's processor as an extra CPU. The
graphics would slow down during disk access.
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