Architecture ZX - The Spectrum of the future.

<b>Architecture ZX</b> - The Spectrum of the future.

    $% Steelzer ^ Triumph, 2001


    Long ago, several People headed by myself and made plans
about setting up production of new Spectrum-board computer
the next generation. And the scheme has been developed almost 
... It took some time and this is a good idea was littered with 
fresh land and was buried in the cemetery zatvorkah ideas. And 
moreover, because Why? Far from the fact that such zx today no 
one will buy, as some might think. Everything went ashes due to 
the fact that unique opportunity to order n / n with the 
industrial plant with crack broken off ...



    So, I stood with a shovel in an abandoned grave and think
Duma. Dig or not withered mummy, barely alive ... Ca.
Persuaded. Tell us briefly about the bike super-zx, and call it:


                     Architecture of the Future


    Open the lid of any companies and advanced zhelezyachnika
tell me what you see? That's right, for my gear and wires
sandwiches barely can see the original fee. A zhelezyachnik -
Today stronghold upgrade the nation:) Why it makes sense to 
modify comp? There are people for whom zx - 48k plus a tape 
recorder. But such ardent fans is taken aside and think about 
the ordinary users.



    What we have here as a standard? Pentagon + 5'25FDD + AY ...
Everything seems. Well, if there is a standard and 99% of 
software underneath works - the hell izgolyatsya and invent all 
sorts of improvements, type Krysko, moped, Sims, cache, 
generals, indicators, except that do not register, screw ... 
etc? Probably because, in some extent it is convenient and 
someone needs. 


    Show me a guy who would refuse the composter,
hung, "the latest technology? Yes there are. But
against them are still shooting techniques;) Grant that
lotion was his need, or plant a force for such a complex
for a week. The result is guaranteed. Thirst for nothing - 
upgrade EVERYTHING. 


    And now imagine pisi. There, there, in the eternal
hellish inferno basking percent, is angry upgrade. Well, Uncle
a;) Why do we have, in the heavenly tabernacles, it is not 
there? Hehe, we have Refinement. Type a Girl, hung

soldering iron and MGTF'om, slap rosin and reinforced
tin;) upgrade comes in every home, pulls out, inserts
and happy (or a slightly different sequence;) Case two
minutes. Again - as well as ours?


    Hmm ... The case of several stages:


   1) find zhelezyachnika;

    2) put his beer and other accessories;

     3) wait for an hour / day / week ...;

      4) look unrecognizable fee;

       5) surprised that it still works;

        6) to steer;


    Not true, if a little longer than theirs. But the romantic;)
In general, we do not have the upgrade. There are only 
improvements. Who wants to bet - think for yourself: vicious 
pytsyschnik throws old vidyashku and puts a new and spektrumist 
pulls out the "old" Controller Krysko and vtyapivaet in its 
place "new". Sounds like something terrible. Good old zx exist 
lotion in the singular. copy all. One type of controller rats, 
or G, as analogue "zvukashki. And between the different 
versions, there is one only difference - either running or not.



    Now recall the Pentagon. Complex, the controller drive
lpt'shnik, AY. In no trace of lotions. What would they have 
zaimet Soldering. And many fear that word like the plague. 
Okay, we take Scorpion. That's the same thing. Slots does not 
count - initially in a computer no different ext. handheld 
device. Slots as a way of resuming bucks buyers;)



    And if you do today is how complex it can we see? Is
thus the same: computer, disk drive controller, AY ... slots 
... NEA. Simply in my opinion was originally posted on n / n 
vysheupomyatue devices. Well, whatever we uvudim it, this 
notorious computer architecture of the future?


1) memory SIMM. from 256K to 4M. Floating Port Configuration
switching pages and lines. (See below);

2) is correctly connected AY. the correct frequency, but not 
1.75, as the pros;


3) Integrated kemston mouse. connection required
only a refinement of the mouse itself;

4) integrated stereo-covox;

5) Integrated flash 128 colors can be off;

6) turbo drive controller with a loop, with the possibility of
connecting hd on drive c, drive d is reserved for the ramdisk,
output indicators for the current track;

7) shadow RAM - Cache;

8) Shadow ROM 62256 with the ability to write to the data from
RAM through adzhansed serzhise (see below);

9) software to define the procedure: Pentagon int,
turbo, super turbo (to squeeze the most from the procedure);

10) integrated cmos clock;

11) slot for a moped (with a conclusion on it, and -5 and -12);

12) advansed servise - the program installs a ROM for ports
speed tenevuhi and everything else ...;

13) Several standardized slots (under G, for example);

14), all ports are made on ozushke. ie anyway proshivaya it
we achieve the desired configuration + short track
decoding + the possibility of full address we need ports;

15) control the rate of second-tier companies. management is
a programmable counter-scaler, which will
just rebuild the desired chstotu percent ...;

16) the shadow memory (RAM at 62 256) enables software
connect both the existing ROM version, and to write
its ...;


    That is like and truncated. While far away and not all of 
the above need a lot more and not utcheno ... Screw for example.



    Now close your eyes and imagine that we work for
such a computer The ... Presented? Well then, safely buy and 
apelsets chew. For it to do more nefig. While it seems 
unrealistic the creation of such a miracle ... It's only just 
thinking out loud a bit too strong raw land.



    Bye!


                             *


                Text editors, what are they? ..


    At one time it was fashionable to write a critique on the 
system software, but Today not much apparent activity of the 
critics. Think it was due to the decline in production of 
software or due to an increase software quality - it means 
looking at a medal with one hand. 


    I will talk a little, clearly and in a gentle manner. If 
the niche absence of a normal graph. Editor took BGE and EDP, 
then now there is a problem that normal text

Editor in nature simply does not exist. Modern and horror is 
not in account. Call them and others, can be normal because we

have not seen anything better. When she kontsepsiya relatively
the last word processors remains a la clone zx-word, on
What is there to say? I'm a man, more than half provodyashy
Time to fatten for the text, whether an article or source code, 
and I've seen? Only 3 categories, each of which are completely

never satisfied. Here is a brief description:


    1) Clone zx-word'a.


    Brakes editor. Try to load a healthy faylische,
Note the block at the beginning and going in it, in passing 
something correcting. Well, like it? This oschushenie, if at zx

velocities are not 3.5Mgts and a few hertz. After all you can do
faster? YOU CAN! And you have to. The brakes are not visible 
with single set text, but when serious work, when you need to 
squeeze everything 100% Suddenly it turns out that the power of 
a property room ... 


    Next - where the full work with large files? We are on the
48k sitting or what? The majority of at least 256K - and where 
they Support? Okay.



    For example, I load the file length of x, and after editing
length of X remains. Unload it with the-same name. Well
and why should I append to the end of the directory where it 
can be Fit in place of the former? Pre-course making a request.

Well, why should I text converter for everyone there tabs
and all the rest? You can ask for. And where is the indicator
displacement of the cursor relative to the file? There is some 
reason string and number in line with the code. Though thanks 
for that ... 


    Where setupets Screw, in which I can fit everything under
yourself? Why only 64 characters? Where 32 and 42? And in one
line and with variable panel. codes. It turns out that gfx'eram
drove a backhoe to do, and all media producers have to
sweat with a wooden shovel ...


    2) CP / M editors.


    I PROFI and many, too. By the way, most
Chelyabinsk sits behind profikami. And what do we have? And no 
hera! No support software! Caliper only Pama on dffdh. Enable

a bitik and get a full 80 characters or 64 matrix
6x8. And we also have color ... ANSIshku can draw and
OK to look not only at the absence of a Border, but also on
ptsshnye lyricist. But where our screen support? Yes, anywhere.
Sorry. Especially against the background of any development of 
new graph. permits even with the support of software.



    Is so hard to check out one port, print is not there 
something and vooon there somehow. Reconcile with the brakes - 
will compensate OOOGROOOMNYM ekaranom. Pulled to one thread of 
same-write system under tr-dos ...



    3) About Quality zx-asm'a as an assembler, I keep silence, 
I note 

        only that he was at the same time sufficiently friendly

        text editor.


    EVERYTHING!


              But the general requirements of the text

                  processor, the third millennium:

1) support large files
2) support for ibm-ROM drive
3) engine in the frame. even say impossible?
4) Multi-script and mnogofontovost. 32,42,64 in the same row 
with nastraevaemymi Ex. code + support text coloring. AND

All this can be off
5) correct dos driver

6) converters (overlay) plots
7) a cool setup
8) pleeyr Mouzon. people sitting for three hours and cut text -
Why should he not listen Mouzon? Format RT2.4, RT3.4, RT3.5 +
kompilennye a specific address
9) the possibility of AutoFormat
10) Support for multiple encoding and uploading any of them

11) vysushka text using the codes
12) preview of the text from the catalog
13) support himem. without avtodetekta. all set to setup: and
bits and a mask, and ports.
14) high-speed general work
15) podderka several existing graph permits

16), all data on the cursor
17) Built-packer. hrumerovsky de facto!
18) shortcuts in the menu


    Until all. Again, but I will say: not all necessarily, and 
more not taken into account. Next coders, the nation will not 
forget you! 


    By slovum, about sore, but not on a foggy future. We have
Chelyabinsk was written TRIUMPH WORD, which could be an 
alternative and quite a big step forward. In many respects it

shocking, but on the other exceeds all ... Chief, and
single encoder project, Crite / TM, probably for life will be
something begin, start, and here to finish it so maybe not
able. Editor ready for about 70%, but build upon it in
soon hardly anyone will undertake. Personally, I remain
just sad to brush away a tear and go back to the old, good
Art Nouveau, thanks for that I give the ASH'u ...