Re: Wanted: a faster protocol for IEEE devices

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:46:47 +0200
Message-Id: <0CB29FD9-5F4A-4F4B-87A6-8C595CB28847@wfmh.org.pl>
On 2013-09-18, at 13:27, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:

>> If so, why not equip the 8250 with 1 MB of RAM to read the whole disk?
>> ;-) Or better 2 MB - ....
> 
> For several reasons I wouldn't do this:
> - I would need four 512 MB SRAM ICs that I don't have and aren't cheap.
> - I would need extra hardware for _both_ CPUs to handle the extra address lines.

- it would make more sense only if the extension was supposed to be something like TurboTrans (or TurboAccess was it? - never remember which one was which :-) aimed at /using/ the disks rather than imaging them

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