[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: 128 or 512?

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:17:40AM -0500, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Rumor has it that John W. Linville may have mentioned these words:
> >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:42:31AM -0800, Jim Cox wrote:
> >> Why James?  Would the issue be the limited writes of the
> >> flash cards?
> >
> >Because CF cards are not byte-addressable?  They look like a hard
> >drive, not memory.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken (which I probably am) I *think* there's a mode that _on 
> reads_ CF cards can be byte-addressed, but I think they can only be written 
> by erasure & reprogramming in 32K or 64K chunks... but again, it's not like 
> the CF spec is bedtime reading to me... ;-)

I really don't want to quibble over terminology here.  The point is,
CF doesn't look like memory (i.e. LDA and STA don't work to read and
write any single random byte on the card in any random order).  So,
it wouldn't be appropriate to use it for a RAM card.

John
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John W. Linville
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