From: Zoont Foomby (zoontf_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 07 2005 - 22:45:25 PDT
Yeah, I was over-shooting a bit. I know inherently, without you or
anyone else saying so, that USB attached storage, and in fact USB
devices of any sort or pretty unlikely to work with a Newton. I was
just being blindly optimistic. :)
Anyway, why settle for USB attached storage for a newton if we could
Firewire 800 or better for our Newtons ??? :)
JK, obviously.
Still, the USB-AC-Newton rig is a pretty inventive endeavour. Hat's off.
On 5/7/05, Newton <newton_at_spymac.com> wrote:
> > Pretty soon we'll have USB hard drives plugged into the Newt,=3D20
> > and CDBurners, and DVD-ROM drives for watching DVDs in Green=3D20
> > and black...
> We will probably never see USB storages attached to Newtons. The file
> systems and standards of USB drives and the Newton are completely =3D
> different.
> External USB hardware is intended to follow international standards and =
=3D
> the
> Newton uses its very own filesystem of soups which is totally different =
=3D
> and
> optimized for power saving. What Adriano did is using only one pin of =3D
> the
> USB connection, the power supply pin (and ground pin of course).=3D20
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> The biggest step for USB storage implementation in NOS would be to =3D
> transform
> the serial data stream of USB into a sort of virtual soup and vice =3D
> versa.
> All changes of this soup will have to be transferred back to the USB =3D
> medium.
> This will only be possible with major work and probably with additional
> hardware which is in itself just another computer. Imagine only the =3D
> impact
> of a 700MB CD in comparison to the 64MB of two Flash cards. Even on a
> machine with 4MB main RAM the heap is getting used up with big cards and
> e.g. many packages installed. On the CD would be 10 times more which has =
=3D
> to
> be checked and installed in the heap, at least the pointers to the CD
> content. I don't believe that we'll ever watch a DVD movie in black and
> green since everybody bought meanwhile a 49 bucks box for under his TV =
=3D
> at
> home.=3D20
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> Marco
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the more you grok the net.
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