[Coco] Thought

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Fri Sep 24 13:23:44 EDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug at optushome.com.au>

> I'm not sure how the CoCo drive works - I'm guessing from your comments it
> doesn't interrupt the 6809 when data is ready?!?

IIRC the drive HALTs the processor until the buffer is transferred. That's
why the OS-9 clock gets off time when you do disk I/O.

NM




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