Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu Aug 12 16:12:43 CDT 2004


On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi Jules
>  Here is what I've found. It is a disk drive emulator.
> Unless a PC is DMA driven, bit banging a floppy is not practical.

Disk I/O without DMA is not practical.  But it IS possible.
Consider the PCJr and Tandy 1000, both of which do disk I/O
without DMA on 4.77MHz? machines.




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