Re: EDD + CARD

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <20020726152105.06824.00001292@mb-fc.aol.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>
>Interesting.  The authors have apparently developed their own
>lexicon for the Disk ][ formats, quite different from the conventional
>one (perhaps invented for "Beneath Apple DOS"?).  For example,
>their "timing bytes" are usually referred to as "self-sync bytes" (or
>"sync bytes", or even "sync nibbles", since they are not data bytes).

Beneath Apple DOS gets the lowest-level totally wrong, I think --
they talk of clock bits between each data bit, which if I understand
correctly simply aren't there; that would be an FM scheme.  

Not that this has anything to do with self-sync bytes, which they do get
right.
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