Re: TI-H: Re: IR Link Status
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Re: TI-H: Re: IR Link Status
Someone's already done what you just said...
>>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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