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Great article as always! I especially like the section on "A historical look at pins and timing". Unless I'm misunderstanding the terminology, there may be an
by Stratoscope 3y ago
Great article as always! I especially like the section on "A historical look at pins and timing".
Unless I'm misunderstanding the terminology, there may be an error in the discussion of the shift/crossover circuit. And a minor typo...
> The [buses] can be connected in three ways: direct, crossed-over, or swapped.
> The "direct" mode connects the 16 bits of the C bus to the lower 16 bits of the address/data pins.
> The second mode performs the same connection but swaps the bytes.
> The final mode shifts the 20-bit AD bus value four positions to the right.
It sounds like those two modes got swapped? ;-)
For clarity, I think I would change the order in the introduction and use the mode names instead of "second" and "final":
> The buses can be connected in three ways: direct, swapped, or crossed-over.
> The "direct" mode connects the 16 bits of the C bus to the lower 16 bits of the address/data pins.
> The "swapped" mode performs the same connection but swaps the bytes.
> The "crossed-over" mode shifts the 20-bit AD bus value four positions to the right.
- kens 3y agoThanks, I've fixed that section since I kind of mangled it.