Re: DOS 3.3 Nibble Encoding

[sbdocker@acs.ucalgary.ca (Sean Brendan Dockery)]

In article <mark-171193100945@128.157.9.145>
mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:

| Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the initial boot track was more
| or less a byte stream set-up.

The whole disk is a byte stream set-up.  :-)

Although I'm not sure, it sounds like your trying to say that self
sync bytes aren't needed on track zero.

This doesn't jive.

If you move to track zero, how could you possibly know that you are at
the beginning of sector zero (or any other sector) without self sync
bytes?  The sectors on track zero are also skewed, not sequential.

| Where there were a set of sync bytes at
| the beginning of the byte stream and then there were just a set of bytes
| with no sync information to them (sort of like reading a tape).

What?!

| mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov
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