Re: TI-H: Re: IR Link Status
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Re: TI-H: Re: IR Link Status
uhh.... no comment :)
>I don't know much about hardware, and only a little bit more about
software,
>but it seems to me you guys are looking in all the wrong places. Think
>about the internet, think about LAN's, think about even a simple
four-player
>Game Boy hoook-up. What do they all have in common? A server!!!
Anything
>from an SGI super-computer, to a simple chip the size of your thumb!
>Everything requires an intercessor. You're all expecting to slap a
piece of
>IR hardware on the bottom of the calc, and the calc will handle the
rest!
>Wrong!! The hardware needs its own piece of programmed hardware, most
>likely an AVR, which will interact with another piece of programmed
>hardware, again an AVR. The second AVR would be the server. It would
>handle transfers from all calcs "logged in." Each calc would send a
request
>(dial), and the server would check to see if it has room for one more.
If
>so, it returns an acknowledgement, and the calc proceeds to send log-in
>information. This would simply be a nickname, and a location, most
likely
>in the form of calc@server. This would allow for discernment between
>multiple servers in a single room. It wouldn't use any existing
protocols,
>since it would all be handled by AVR's, instead of the calc. Transfers
>would be much faster, since the AVR's could run nothing but transfers,
>un-interrupted by other software functions. It would make periodic
>transfers to the calc, to handle things sent by the user. There would
be
>two different protocols: One for calc-server transfers, and one for
>server-server transfers, so the two don't get confused. Each server
would
>be able to contain messages, working similarly to e-mail. Also, the
log-in
>would send a nickname, for interactive chats. The server would handle
>mulitple users logged in, and could intervene in multiple-user chat
>sessions. Since the AVR's on the calc would use the link port, it's
>compatible with any calc, simply requiring new drivers. Any thoughts?
>
>-Gul
>
>
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