Heritage/1 peripheralsAs mentioned in previous notes, Heritage/1 will treat peripherals as memory cells: each peripheral will share a portion of the main memory that it will utilize as a buffer for transferring data.
This concept is powerful in the sense that it give the OS a first level of abstraction since system software won't have to deal with the "low level" tasks associated with filling the buffer from a particular media such as tape. The price to pay for the abstraction is that some "intelligent being" will be required for carrying on the task.
In modern times we'll surely use a microcontroller chip, but that is not possible for Heritage/1 due the "historical constrain" I've imposed to her design. In the old days, a "low profile" computer would be used instead (as IBM did in the 60s with their "channels") but I can barely afford to build one low profile computer: Heritage/1 itself! What to do?
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