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The Commodore 1541 and related drives use the same 6502 CPU as the C64, VIC-20, and other computers they connect to. It is possible to, for example, run a disk
by TMWNN 2y ago
The Commodore 1541 and related drives use the same 6502 CPU as the C64, VIC-20, and other computers they connect to. It is possible to, for example, run a disk duplicator program on a Commodore computer connected to two drives, which executes code on both drives so that they can be disconnected from the computer but continue to copy disks from one to another.
- rbanffy 2y agoWe are kind of getting back there - a modern server (and mainframes before them) has a bunch of slave processors for all kinds of specialized work, not only GPUs, but DPUs, crypto acceleration, and so on. The C64 went a bit further than that, in something that reminisces of a Plan 9 network of a workstation and one or more storage servers (the drives).