"der.hans" wrote: > > Am 26. Aug, 2001 schwäzte John (EBo) David so: > > > Hans, what do you need? I just gave a buddy of mine a baggy full of old > > sims. Might have what you'd need. It'll be a week or so before I go > > back to NM though to get them... > > Thanks for the offer, but don't worry about it. If I can't find the ones I > put away before going on vacation ( I knew better than to clean up right > before leaving!!!! :), I'll go out and get me some brand spanking new ones. > Actually, that's what I'm planning anyway as this is for my DVD/TV/gaming > machine, but I just wanted to get it back on the air tonight. > > Could I do without RAM and just use swap? ;-) I always thought it would be a fun project to directly memory map one of those ultra small disks directly to a a processor with a decient cache... Would be slow, but perfect for one of those 10MH microcontrol processors like the PIC. Just think of a wristwatch sized datalogger... But here I am dreaming... sigh... back to homework. EBo --