Re: TI-H: TI Network - TIN


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Re: TI-H: TI Network - TIN




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...


>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


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