Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:05:01 +0100
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 06:43:26AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> In all seriousness, with the processing speed of modern CPUs it
> probably would be a no-brainer to support data storage to tape. In
> fact, it really isn't very different from the "sound card modem"
> stuff (tape adds some funky failure modes that phone lines don't have,
> but that can probably be ignored. Of course, all error-correction has
> to be forward error correction, since it isn't possible to get
> feedback from the receiver. Hmm... if nothing else, this just might
> have enough hack value for someone to do it "just because".)
With modern CPUs and modulation techniques, we'd get a much higher data
density than the old days too.
-- Jamie
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