] On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, G.S. Vigneault wrote:
]
] > Is there a particular date/time chip that has been made
] > part of the MSX hardware specification -- if so, which?
]
] Sure there is. Since the MSX-2, all machines must have the RP5C01:
] it controls the date/time, password, default values for set adjust, set
] beep, and others.
]
] But I have a more sutile question. Has this chip been predicted by
] MSX standards since the MSX-1?
]
] Every time I booted my old MSX-1, it asked for a date (to save
] files on disk). When I converted my MSX-1 to MSX-2, the boot stopped to
] ask the date. And I didn't change the drive interface!! So my questions
] are: how the drive knew I changed my computer, and where did it get the
] date/time?
>From the MSX-2 Bios perhaps? The MSX-2 Bios has a function to read the time
from the RP5C01 chip. And it might very well have been that the MSX-2 Bios
had already been defined when MSX-DOS/Disk basic was created.
Kind regards,
Alex
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