[Coco] Preserving old CoCo diskettes...

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Tue May 18 17:30:02 EDT 2010


At 04:22 PM 5/18/2010, you wrote:

>>Since I compiled the rzsz you are, or have played with, I can't argue that
>>its architecturally wrong, it is, and that means you are limited to a hair
>>over 700 cps on a 6309 machine, and the middle 500's on a 6809 machine.
>>It is, in the face of poor line quality, absolutely bulletproof though.  It
>>just keeps on hammering until the checksums do match.  The problem is that it
>>builds the checksum one &^% char at a time, so that whole loop has to execute
>>for every incoming byte.  Grrr.
>
>Exactly.  Always build from a stable program to a faster program, 
>with stability coming first.

Duh.  I repeated myself there, didn't I.

-- 
~ Roger Taylor




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