On Sonntag 31 Oktober 2010, you wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:57:27 -0700 > > > > Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> wrote: > >> We have been doing some robustness testing of the ZoomFloppy board. It > >> uses a 7406 for driving the lines in order to be able to sink a decent > >> amount of current to support multiple IEC devices on the bus. > >> > >> http://www.root.org/~nate/c64/xum1541/ > >> > >> What is the defined worst-case IEC bus configuration that we should > >> support? I'd like a reasonable limit we can support while not adding too > >> much delay for users of one or two drives. > > > > I'd say 6 devices is reasonable, but if the amount of delay doesn't > > increase all that quickly with the number of devices you're willing to > > deal with, go for something that no one in the real world is likely to > > ever actually exceed - perhaps 8 or so. > > Isn't six the max? Four drives (8,9,10,11) and two printers (4 and 5). i remember 4 devices beeing the official specified limit ... no idea where i got that number from though :) -- http://www.hitmen-console.org http://magicdisk.untergrund.net http://www.pokefinder.org http://ftp.pokefinder.org Hör bitte auf Scheisse zu labern. <Widdy/G*P> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2010-10-31 20:00:30
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