[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

[Frank Pittel]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 12:48:27PM -0600, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
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> On Dec 4, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 12/4/2012 1:02 PM, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
> >> Perhaps the Super HDB-DOS project would be something Luis and others would be interested in working on.
> > 
> > There are some very smart people working in this group now...
> > 
> >> Some background: this project was discussed back in September in an email discussion between myself, Mark, Aaron, Darren, Robert Gault and William Astle.  Nothing besides discussion ever took place, and no work was done.
> >> 
> >> The idea was (and still is) to define a set of commands that would easily allow one to address DriveWire, Floppy, IDE, and SCSI devices in the same ROM, and to do so without making the syntax difficult or strange.  We discussed a number of different proposals to do this.
> > 
> > This would be a dream come true - the flexibility I mentioned earlier with the performance of a SuperIDE or TC^3.
> > 
> > Had the discussions reach a point where you were talking about device detection - whether Super HDB-DOS would detect the mass storage on the machine? Or would the user have to use a setup program, similar to what we do during the initial setup of a SuperIDE?
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> The idea would be to include the code to talk to all devices in the same ROM. There would be no need for run-time detection -- only error handling in case a device was accessed that wasn't on the system.
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> Essentially, it would have eliminated the need for any setup program at all.
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> But it would have definitely required moving up to a 16K ROM.

Sounds cool! When will it be done???!!??!

I've got plenty of space available for eprom on my superide!! Devoting 16K to hdb-dos isn't a concern!

The Other Frank