Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD What is it?

2013-12-10 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Michael, Nothing to do with software, not much to do with hardware as well, just the basic needs of a computer /Any/ QL (or any other computer) needs memory to store the buffers for the mass storage, in the QL's case there is the added problem that the OS is designed in a way (like a lot o

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD What is it?

2013-12-10 Thread Michael Bulford
On Thursday, 5 December 2013, Colin Mckay Wrote: > Please describe the hardware & software which forms it, sufficiently for us > to know what you are talking about. > > On Wednesday, 04 December 2013, Peter Wrote:> > the > > restriction that a QL memory expansion is madatory for QL-SD has been

Re: [Ql-Users] QL-SD What is it?

2013-12-10 Thread Miguel Angel Rodríguez Jódar
It looks like you used a vintage PLD, which was a good idea. Not so vintage, actually. It's a XC9572XL CPLD from Xilinx, still in production, afaik. It's only that for this prototype, I've used the PLCC44 version, with PLCC44 socket. Production boards may have the VQ64, or TQ100 version (chea