Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!! | | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:12:52 -0300 | | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <98Sep14.145745gmt.66309@gateway.ukaea.org.uk>, Neil Conway writes: +----- | Alex Buell wrote: | > On 14 Sep 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote: | > > In all seriousness, with the processing speed of modern CPUs it | > > probably would be a no-brainer to support data storage to tape. In | > If the old Spectrum, ZX81 and BBC B and many others that were around in | > the early 1980s can do it, then it can be done. I remember the VAX | > minicomputers had to be booted directly from tape. | Speaking as a sad git who disassembled the code in the Speccy ROM which | handled tape I/O, I can confirm that it was really simple stuff. Only a +--->8 The Ohio Scientific P1 did it with a cheap DAC (which doubled as an on-board 300baud modem) and simply did raw bytes to/from the tape drive. No error correction, so loading from tape was always an adventure even if the tape was known good :-)
I had to boot a Plexus P/60 from tape once or twice, but that was 1600bpi magtape. Again, it was pretty much raw data, albeit in the form of a filesystem image written to the tape.
I agree with the question "why?" :-)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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