From: Anders Carlsson (anders.carlsson_at_sfks.se)
Date: 2008-03-06 09:41:10
Hi all,
A lot of interesting ideas now when the can is open! Most is of course only
speculation.
Marko wrote:
> It could keep serving the loaders in a round-robin fashion
For that matter, is it asking too much to have a good old toggle switch on
the USB-ish device (or whatever we're targetting at the moment) that lets
you select the type of host computer instead of trying to boot every loader
until it finds a match? It would simplify things a bit. On the other hand as
everyone have pointed out, the IEC bus after all is a better target if we
drop the needs of a USB or memory card mass storage device on the PET
series.
The more I think about it, the less feasible the tape port is for this
purpose. Even if we transmit a boot loader with a menu software upon
pressing SHIFT+RUN/STOP, how will the PC server or USB device know which
option the user selects from the keyboard if the only signal that is sent
out is CASS READ? The server would again have to transmit every application
on the hard disk in round-robin order until the computer recognizes the
program it wants to load. Urgh. Even at 38400 bps, it may take a while.
Regards
--
Anders Carlsson
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