RE: TI-H: Networks
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RE: TI-H: Networks
>From: BioHazard <kubergh@apci.net>
>To: "'ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org'" <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Subject: RE: TI-H: Networks
>Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 17:03:37 -0500
>
>Just keep in mind that AT&T didn't start with cellullar.
>
>BioHazard
>
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>From: Osma Suominen[SMTP:ozone@clinet.fi]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 1997 7:22 AM
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: TI-H: Networks
>
>BioHazard wrote:
>>=20
>> You could use it as a giant chat room, or for file sharing, if only =
>one person had an expander, or for big multiplayer games.--They might =
>have to be simple, but they'd still be an achievement.
>
>Well, yes, maybe, but I don't think we even need the expander here.
>I mean, you can chat and play and share files with just software, but it
>could be used for e.g. data storage because of its capacity.
>=20
>> How does a decentralized network work? Can we do it? Also, if the =
>Expander can be used as the "CPU", perhaps a simpler version of the =
>expander, w/O memory storage could be made just for this purpose, as =
>sort of a networking card for those of us w/o expanders or the money for =
>them.
>
>It works without a central server, all hosts are equal in principle. In
>I2C terms this means a multimaster network, where each calculator that
>wants to send something becomes a master (with the exception of a host
>requesting information from another, in which case the host that
>requests information is the master and the one that sends the data is
>the slave). You don't need the expander here, you just need multimaster
>I2C routines. The ones I've seen expect the TI to be the only master on
>the network, but this is not the case if many calculators are attached.
>If I've got time I might design multimaster I2C routines, it shouldn't
>be that difficult, but they're not very useful until you have something
>else than a cable to link with.
>
>So, you don't need a "networking card", the link port is enough for I2C.
>You just need software.
>
>-Ozone
>
>--=20
>*** Osma Suominen *** ozone@clinet.fi *** http://www.clinet.fi/~ozone
>***
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he is right
KISS (keep it simple stupid)
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