Archiving Software

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Archiving Software
>   From: Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net>
>   Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:11:58 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>

I tend to agree with your position Jim.  Posturing or it's appearance is
a bad place to be.

As an aside if you've written any code for 765 then it's easy to understand 
how image disk works down deep.  If you haven't then reading the code is 
likely only an exercise.  There has been enough conversation about the chip
and it's heirs to make it clear that the hardware is sometimes more than 
meets the eye.  The ramification of hardware choices in PC implementations
be it XT TTL loaded board or chip version of it is compromized and it does 
affect programming.  When you add that lovely 8237 DMA it just gets more fun.
My hats off to anyone programming PC hardware and getting good code that 
runs on all the muck and mire flavors of MS operating systems. 


Allison