Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!! | From | Anders Melchiorsen <> | Date | 14 Sep 1998 14:17:43 +0200 |
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hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
> In all seriousness, with the processing speed of modern CPUs it > probably would be a no-brainer to support data storage to tape. In > fact, it really isn't very different from the "sound card modem" > stuff (tape adds some funky failure modes that phone lines don't have, > but that can probably be ignored. Of course, all error-correction has > to be forward error correction, since it isn't possible to get > feedback from the receiver. Hmm... if nothing else, this just might > have enough hack value for someone to do it "just because".)
How much data would an audio tape be able to carry? Are we talking a few hundred kilobytes or are we in the megabyte range?
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