Re: TI-H: USB Link

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: USB Link
From: matt johson <matt.johnson@wmich.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:08:41 -0400
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> >> > > I don't see any reason that there should be support for 127
> >> > >  devices.
> >
> >Let me see, 3 monitors + 1 printer + 1 scanner + 1 keyboard +
> >1 mouse +  120 computers running in parallel (all linked through
> >USB) = a really power full machine to do a whole lot of math in
> >a very short amount of time.
> 
> Think about the information exchange rate...  12MBPS.  It would be just
> about as fast as one PPC750 300MHz processor...  ;)
> 
> Grant


That would depend on your app. and how your OS divides up the work load. 
If the computers were truely wierd in parallel and looked parallel to the
OS then
you could acheive much faster speeds.

-matt <matt.johnson@wmich.edu>