Emax

At 04:42 PM 2/8/2016, you wrote:

>Although this reinforces my argument in support of SCSI.

I am getting a EMAX SE in, which has no SCSI.

>The whole problem with Floppy was that on EVERY floppy, you have to have the OS.
>So, if you change to a new OS version, you must load in the OS and then save it on every floppy.
>HxC continues with that method, in that every “disk” image you make has to have that OS in there - the exact SAME OS.

Why does each floppy HAVE TO have the same OS on it? Isn't the OS loading upon boot up only, and then it's irrelevant? Or does the EMAX work on a section-load basis - that is, if you need to use a DSP function, it has to load that OS section in? (In other words, the EMAX doesn't have enough system memory to hold the entire OS.) If the latter is true, you'd need/want the same OS on every disk because the right section could be loaded. If the OS was different, the new section would be incompatible. Is that correct? 

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User