Re: How do I add firmware to a card?

["Alex Freed" <alexf@mirrow.com>]

"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message 
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>>   I wonder if the Unidisk could be used as a co-processor,
>> doing non-disk access computations?
>
> In theory, yes. It would be a rather pointless exercise, unless you were
> transferring a relatively small amount of data, doing a long and complex
> calculation (with the Apple II doing something else at the same time),
> then transferring back the result (also a relatively small amount of
> data).
>
> The overhead of the data transfer wipes out any gain in having access to
> a second processor, except when the computation time outweighs the
> transfer time.
>


One application that comes to mind is on-the-fly encryption of
data going to/from the disk. The usefullness of this in A2 context
is a different story.

-Alex.