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Re: Virtual serial drive



David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 9/14/2012 1:35 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> How about the idea of putting the vdisk client code into a replacement ROM
>> for the SSC?
>> 
>> If it fits, that gets it out of the RAM address space...
> 
> I like the idea a lot.  256 bytes would be a squeeze (oh, minus the first
> few for the ID bytes...) but repurposing the SSC for the task would be
> straightforward.  It would become a disk adapter, hardwired to the serial
> server on the other end.

Which would make it bootable--very cool!

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon