Re: Late to the party: What's Rosetta?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote:

>I'm willing to consider anything for which I can get the documentation
>and someone will loan me the hardware.

I need to weasel out of that just a bit.

The ZX-24 only has 32K of EEPROM which is used both for program and data
storage. While I've added a socket for a 64K I²C EEPROM for additional data,
the ZX-24 onboard EEPROM still has to be treated as a scarce commodity.
Adding native support for protocols will use up some EEPROM so I need to be
selective, supporting only those devices that are most common. ASCII and
binary protocols that do not require handshaking can be supported without
roZetta needing to know anything about them so they only use up data memory.

I've socketed the I²C EEPROM so it can be easily replaced, if necessary. I'm
specifying a Microchip EEPROM that can withstand 1,000,000 erase/write
cycles which means it might wear out with frequent changes to the data. With
one erase/write cycle per day it will need replacing in 4742. YMMV. ;-^)