Re: TI-H: TI Network - TIN

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Subject: Re: TI-H: TI Network - TIN
From: kaus <kaus@cybrzn.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:07:39 -0500
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At 11:40 PM 10/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Some thing I forgot to add to that:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Miles Raymond <m_rayman@bigfoot.com>
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Monday, October 19, 1998 10:52 PM
>Subject: Re: TI-H: TI Network - TIN
>
>
>>
>>1. As a programmer, you should know that a compiled app for one calc will
>>not run on another without an "emulator" of sorts.  I don't think that an
>86
>>prog would run on an 82, do you?  And what about the 89/92?  They even have
>>a different processor!  How the heck could you run an 82/83/85/86 prog
>>natively on an 89/92/92+?  The ZTetris linking protocal is the only thing
>>cross-calc about it.  If you don't believe me, find someone at school with
>a
>>different calc than yours without ZTetris, and try to send it to them.
>>
>>2. I think that the best way to handle multi-calc storage is for the calc
>to
>>attach an ID to the stored file, so another calc could see that "hey, this
>>just isn't my thing", and wouldn't run it.  I do not know if things such as
>>lists and matrices are cross-calc or not, but I imagine that an 82/83 list
>>would need to convert to an 85/86 list, which would need to convert to an
>>89/92 list.  (I hope I am wrong here.)
>
>How do the calcs interact with the CBL/CBR?  There's got to be a standard
>for data transmition between calcs...
>
there is.  but it isnt i2c compatible.  and the tip (ti-protocl) isnt
multiconnect compliant :)








>
>>3. And about addresses, this just means that more calcs can attach, right?
>>So, if everyone in school that had a calc, they all would be able to use
>>this network?  How is this going to be implemented?  I don't think that
>>someone is acctually going to build a 200+ hub/connector.  Or, is it
>>possible to connect multiple hub/connectors together?
>>
>>    calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>...
>>      |
>>calc-hub-calc
>>      |
>>    calc
>>
>>-Miles Raymond
>
>
-Jonathan Kaus
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Re: TI-H: TI Network - TIN

From: "Miles Raymond" <m_rayman@bigfoot.com>