On Fri, 30 Jul 2021, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Good question.
You obviously understand the issue, but others might not. So, here is the
background:
This was a great read, Fred. Thanks for taking the time to write it up!
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Same here.
I've spent many happy hours in 'the good old days' adjusting 'interleave'
of ST512/406 MFM hard disks to find the optimum setting for a particular
system/controller but had never even heard the term 'skew' until 5 or 6
years ago while playing with odd format diskettes, and then it was i
> On Jul 30, 2021, at 5:35 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> There's a small discussion on S100computers about the terms 'skew' and
> 'interleave'.
>
> In CP/M documentation 'skew' refers to what's usually called interleave
> these days, i.e. offsetting sectors on a track to compensate
On 7/30/21 2:35 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
> There's a small discussion on S100computers about the terms 'skew' and
> 'interleave'.
>
> In CP/M documentation 'skew' refers to what's usually called interleave
> these days, i.e. offsetting sectors on a track to compensate for the fact
> that b
On Fri, 30 Jul 2021, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
There's a small discussion on S100computers about the terms 'skew' and
'interleave'.
In CP/M documentation 'skew' refers to what's usually called interleave
these days, i.e. offsetting sectors on a track to compensate for the fact
that by the time
There's a small discussion on S100computers about the terms 'skew' and
'interleave'.
In CP/M documentation 'skew' refers to what's usually called interleave
these days, i.e. offsetting sectors on a track to compensate for the fact
that by the time the computer has processed a given sector the next
