[Coco] Battery-Backed RTCs for CoCo?

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Tue Nov 13 12:18:22 EST 2018


Didn’t either ADOS3 or Extended ADOS3 support time stamping for DECB disks?

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net

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> On Nov 13, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmmm... I would say that it depends on the software support. The OS9 crowd has drivers, something that's alien to DECB cause everything that is, is in ROM, but the software running on top of DECB can have the necessary support for additional hardware, such as the RTC. Salvador
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>    On Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 9:56:58 AM CST, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:  
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> By the way: Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'm assuming that a battery backed RTC is mostly useful to OS9/NitrOS9 users, and not very useful to DECB users.
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> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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