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 -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2013-09-18 13:00:03
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