Posted By
someone
on 2002-10-15
|  OK, maybe I missed to set visible >irony< tags...
In my opinion the whole family of 80x86 processors is not the top of hardware design (remember the ridiculous segmented addressing and the poor register set). Therefore I decided one day never to buy such a machine. A >real processor< has a linear address space and a bunch of universal registers (examples? Motorola 680X0 with 8+8 regs, PowerPC with 32, Itanium...).
What I wanted to say is that you can't use the X-1541 cable with machines other than PC. Actually I have a Mac and this machine doesn't even has a parallel port where the cable could be plugged in (apart from the fact that the cable driver software doesn't run on a Mac...).
The main advantage of the 1551 adapter I'm going to build is that I don't need special software on the computer, only a terminal program. The adapter's firmware will provide the user interface - I'm thinking about a simple surface resembling a plain old BBS files section (upload, download, directory).
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