On Thu, 10 Nov 1994 17:57:00 +0000 (GMT), Simon Cooke said: > Right.. you were saying that it was a stupid design if the upper and lower > bytes of each word were read from different ports -- or at least that's what > I thought you meant...
> I was explaining how it was easier It sounds harder to me. As well as everything else you have to work out which port to read from next... If you've asked for some data, then you presumably know what it is so why isn't it easier to read it all from the same port? Even if it is, then why not get the drive to write out the sector data with only one byte per word so that you only need one port? imc
