Re: TI-H: Zunix?
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Re: TI-H: Zunix?
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From: Matt Cooper <mnemonicdevice@hotmail.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Zunix?
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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. =)
|
This is a pretty cool idea, why would any one flame you?
But, alas, like youve said, convincing a principal/teacher of the
supremeness of this method would take some doing. That is beside the point
tho. It would just be pretty dnag cool.
jonathan