Date   : Mon, 25 May 1998 23:09:57 -0600
From   : "Rick Galbraith" <ricgal@...>
Subject: Re: Ideas on new hardware

Jon Ripley wrote:

>Another half-idea that I had would be to squeeze these three DFS's together
>onto one chip, each one sharing common code, whilst being individually
>selectable.
  
Solidisk had a similar thing with some of the DFS/ADFS chips that I've seen,
a disc of one type would be recognised even if the other filing system was
selected.  I don't think that they shared any code though.
  
IMHO it would be difficult if not impossible to integrate the code into a
single 16k ROM, if it was possible it would have been done by now.
  
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ISTR reading that the DFS was blown into the ADFS roms, and that the user
could select
which he needed to use. Maybe I'm wrong, though.

Anyway, I do have an article on the original 1770/ADFS upgrade transcribed
from the Canadian 
BBC user group newsletter, Oak Leaves. It is on my site as
http://www.pangea.ca/~ricgal/adfs.html
rick_galbraith@...
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