8 Dec
2003
8 Dec
'03
11:43 a.m.
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 10:39, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Tom Jennings wrote:
> And then later when EIDE and serial ATA are as
obsolete as core, your
> simulator is more likely to port to whatever the crapyp hardware of 2020
> is.
>
> (The assumption is that translating C, perl, whatever will be easier
> than soldering.)
Also assuming ECP parallel ports will be resident on
the crappy hardware
of the future.
I never assumed ECP parallel ports, but custom-built hardware interface
of the smaller order that gets the job done. For
non-screaming-performance (SASI) hell a USB-connected home-made box
would do. But in the box would be 'simple' hardware, and not very much
of it, and since it's intended to be a 'classic comp to USB' adapter, it
would be simpler to adapt to other systems, adn in the future, when USB
is as dorky as parallel, if it were documented right.
Nothing lasts forever.