Gee - with a mass storage device you
could potentialy do 'task swapping' out
to disk and actually utilize the same
PIC for 'user' tasks ... ('cept the
PIC doesn't execute a pgm from RAM does
it?)

Memories are coming back of time spent on
the TI 960 and 990 series of microcomputers
with apps (on the 990) running under DX10
(and later DNOS) where user tasks were
regularly swapped 'out' to disk in order
to utilize what memory there was for other
tasks whose 'time' had come to execute ...

Jim


----- Original Message ----- >
> I've given this a REALLY good looking over the past few days- the IDE side
> of things really isn't difficult to implement- slightly more complex than
> talking to an 8 bit LCD, the real killer in the whole thing is
implementing
> the file system. I've already got a pic talking to an IDE drive to
retrieve
> number of heads etc.. and it will read and write sectors- although only
uses
> the first half of every 512 byte sector becuase I'm using any external
ram.
>
 - snipola -
>
> Jon Baker
> jon@hayseed.net
>

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