Hi,
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:05 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> Just an opinion, but it's bad software design to assume that the presence or
> a peripheral implies
> a certain class of machine. The presence of a CD-ROM should not imply a 386
> or better machine;
> it's orthogon
Many early CD-ROM drives used on PCs were SCSI, and all of those drivers
work on the XT class (8088/8086/V20) CPUs. There were a lot of devices
from Future Domain, Trantor, and Adaptec. The Adaptec cards generally
required a 16 bit bus but the software runs fine on machines with 8 bit
slots. (I'
> The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed
> drive, which was the one I had. It had its own card because it was
> non-IDE despite the fact that the cable and plug looked exactly like
> IDE. They did use a proprietary standard. They definitely worked on an
> 80286, so I
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel wrote:
Yeah, around 1993 was when the first ones arrived.
I know I was hearing about CD-ROM drives connected to the Apple IIgs when
I was still in grade school (so no later than mid-1990)...
-uso.
Yeah, around 1993 was when the first ones arrived.
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 01:12, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel wrote:
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> > The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed
> > drive, which was the one I had. It
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel wrote:
The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed
drive, which was the one I had. It had its own card because it was
non-IDE despite the fact that the cable and plug looked exactly like
IDE. They did use a proprietary
The first one I can remember was the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S single speed
drive, which was the one I had. It had its own card because it was
non-IDE despite the fact that the cable and plug looked exactly like
IDE. They did use a proprietary standard. They definitely worked on an
80286, so I think we c
> On Aug 3, 2023, at 3:57 PM, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
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> On 8/3/2023 11:54 AM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel wrote:
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>>> On Aug 3, 2023, at 12:37 PM, Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
>>> wrote:
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>>>
Yeah, USB and CD/DVD makes only sense for a 386+ ...
>>> USB, ye
