[coco] For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

[mmarlett at isd.net]

Al,

Thanks Al for noticing the changes. On the surface, no big deal right? :)
HUGE changes underneath! 

Mark



>Indeed -- it seems the current vision of what the SuperBoard WILL be is 
>much beyond what it was PLANNED to be.  That's very different from 
>Microsoft, isn't it? :-)
>
>And the SuperDriver model is very neat -- much like OS-9/non-6809 
>systems.  There is RBF, the file manager that understands things like 
>directories and such, then there is the RBsuper "driver" that is the 
>common stuff that RBF type drivers do -- not sure what all that is on 
>the 6809 -- leaving a low level hardware driver (llXXX) to handle the 
>actual "get a sector, store a sector" part.
>
>The upshot:  Less duplicated code.
>
>Thanks to something Boisy fixed me up with, I *FINALLY* can have my IDE 
>interface driver AND SCSISYS loaded and working together without 
>conflicts/lock ups.
>
>I wonder:  Could the disk driver benefit from using the same RBxxx?  
>Should there also be an ll1773 or whatever?  What about the RAM disk?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>forward. To sum it up. If we were to sit down and attempt to do what we
>have to date on the SuperBoard it probably would have never happened.
>
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