Re: TI-H: Zunix?

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Zunix?
From: "Matt Cooper" <mnemonicdevice@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 09:14:43 PDT
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DOS has been done for the 85?  Could someone possibly point me to a URL 
where I can get the info?

As for that loadlin thing, I think I'm on the same page with you.  
That's exactly what I was thinking of.

z80 vs 68000(?): As I said, I know practically nothing.  If it can be 
done for a 92 or 92+, then cool.

Why axe multi-user?  I suppose it's kinda a "stupid calculator trick" 
but maybe someone has a use for it.  What about a classroom network, 
where everyone gets some special software for their TI-8<2,3,5,6,9> or 
92, and the teacher has some network cables that she just kinda lays out 
between rows of desks.  Then she plugs this little calcnet into her 
TI-92.  She can push data (simple images, text, pointers to programs, 
etc) over to the classnet, they can call up old push-data, possible 
whiteboard facilites (imagine an entire class being able to work on the 
same chalkboard, with the teacher as moderator), and file transfers 
(laplink-92?).

All the above, with only some software (which would perhaps take 1/2 an 
85's RAM?) installed on the client's machine, so the kiddies could still 
have their games and such.  The teacher's machine, on the other hand, 
would run this 68000-un*x to host clients, moderate the whiteboard, and 
feed data down off of the expander.

I imagine it would take some serious talking to convince a middle or 
high school principal of the validity of this method of teaching...

Plz don't flame me cause I'm a hardware-moron.  =)

--Matt Cooper / mnemonicdevice@hotmail.com

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