Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Finnigan Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer Subject: Re: Project: 6th Edition Unix for the Apple IIe/IIc Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 04:20:47 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Mac GUI Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <7fe6e8a2-00d4-418f-a991-d5d28b54eb49@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 04:20:47 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ac9e0e4d7dd3957fb97803ee6801bab8"; logging-data="10000"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ssvunSiOVX4t2qG/cF2zj" User-Agent: Mac GUI Usenet In-Reply-To: <7fe6e8a2-00d4-418f-a991-d5d28b54eb49@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:84XK0saERo5M5UpL2WYXXhC6sEk= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2.programmer:2574 wssimms wrote: > On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 11:44:30 AM UTC+9, D Finnigan wrote: >> Hum-ho. I wonder how many years it will be until we get an interrupting, >> DMA-capable solid-state disk for the Apple II. >> >> We just got an interrupting Ethernet card last year, so miracles do >> happen... :-) > > I should add that a DMA-capable solid state disk probably wouldn't need to > interrupt. After all, there's no rotational or seek latency, and DMA > should > keep transfer latency under a millisecond. > Good point. Next question: how long have you been working on this project so far? :-) (At least since February 13th, I see…)