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Re:1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in ... by rbanffy on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @10:37AM (#40286026)
Depends on how much the Z-80 is doing. You can go the C-64/Atari way where the filesystem is running on the disk drive and the main CPU just runs the applications.
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Re:1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in ... by DerekL on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @08:27PM (#40293084)
On Atari 8-bits, the filesystem ran on the computer itself. There was an MOS 6507 processor in the drive, but that was for communicating on the SIO bus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050

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Re:1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in ... by rbanffy on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:11PM (#40322791)
Fascinating. I wonder if one could fit a filesystem in the floppy ROM - this would free up memory in the host computer for other operations, and allow extended functionality in the filesystem that's absent from existing implementations.
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