Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!freezer!gdtltr From: gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: MIO board and imbedded SCSI drives... Message-ID: <14819@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 23 Mar 90 19:52:37 GMT References: <1915@crash.cts.com> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan) Organization: University of Delaware -- 040 Smith Sun Lab Lines: 50 In article <1915@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes: => =>Will this piece of hardware handicap me? Apparently the MIO board will. =>The biggest MFM ST412/506 drive I've seen is a 120 Mb. Now anybody who knows =>anything about the 65816 knows that it can beat the hell out of an 80286 if =>the proper motherboard is designed around it regardless of what AMD and Harris =>do to enhance the 80286. Now think of this, if you have a powerful enough =>machine, you damn well are going to need as much hard drive space as you can =>get. I have yet to see an actual limit to embedded SCSI drives. Hell, I've =>put 400 Mb CDC's in Mac's, now if you people want to see the 8-bit evolve into =>a 16-bit machine (which is what the T-816 is for) along with evolve into a =>32-bit machine (there is a 65832 on the drawing board), then you had better =>question these stupid design flaws which I do all the time. => I want to know exactly what the problem is between the MIO & the imbedded SCSI drives before I get too heated, but it is quite a hassle. As far as the 65816 vs. 80286, I don't think I'd want to race a 1.75Mhz 65816 against a 12Mhz 80286. Once we manage to get the clock speed up, then we will have quite a system. I have a Turbo-816, and there is no noticable speedup with regular software, and I have yet to run any 65816-specific programs on the thing. If anyone wants to give me some hints on how to port GCC to a 65816 cross- compiler, let me know. I started writing a C compiler for the thing a while back, but I think I better wait until I get to my compiler design course before putting my brain back to that task. =>There's a difference between dare to be different and dare to be stupid. => Tell that to "Wierd Al" Yancovich (sp?). :-] =>I don't put up with stupidity in systems I configure and install whether they =>be Sun workstations, Macintoshes, or IBM compatables and I sure as hell won't =>tolerate it with the systems I have at home that I play with whether they be =>386 machines, Atari ST's (if I ever decide to finally get one, I won't unless =>somebody makes an ethernet board for them), or Atari XL/XE. => I hear that there are SCSI Ethernet boards in existence. I would love to have one for my MIO (if I can write a driver for it). :-] Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration Atari Enthusiast Extreme -- gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu _o_ -------------------------- _o_ [|o o|] "My field is blood and guts programming." -- Me [|o o|] |_O_| "Don't listen to me; I never do." -- Doctor Who |_O_|