Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:58:46 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux |
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:52:47AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> There are weirder examples of what the drive was used for, but as it only > had 8 KB of memory, you could not do as much as you wanted. However, the > 1581 is an altogether different beast, with 32 kb of memory (or was it > even 64?
32kb.
> Can't recall off-handedly.) For instance (however unimplemented > to my knowledge), one could put one of the drives into loading, crunching > (or, as most other people would call it, compress) and saving every file > on disk, leaving the computer for better tasks.
No, too slow CPU :-)
Back to the topic - a general purpose OS just doesn't seem to be very sensible for any typical application of a programmable disk drive which I can think of. But putting things like RAID etc. there sounds great. Sounds like the thing which IBM calls I/O channel or something like that.
Ralf
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