Re: A89: TI <--?--> I2C

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Subject: Re: A89: TI <--?--> I2C
From: Olle Hedman <oh@hem.passagen.se>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 08:29:33 +0200
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Oki!  that clarify's everything :)

I didnt know about the MBus (as i said)
but anyway.. If _I_ (here he goes again :) where to design such a network
and hub, the desig would be very simple. I would just connect all the lines 
of the different calcs to eachother, making a big "ethernet-like" network
(that is all the withe together, all the red together and so on..)
anything else seems a little bit stupid to me.. :/
this would have the result that it would work just perfectly
with just 2 calcs and no hub..

if you are going to write programs for this linkingportocol, why not just
look in the code to see if it works... or try it out if it is precompiled
lirary or something like that...

hmm..  now I am annoying myself with this rather pointless email...
you have still not got your answer :) sorry for that..

//Olle

Miles Raymond wrote:
> 
> When I posted something about networking the calcs, I got a huge response
> that said one already existed: MBus.  So I assumed that with MBus being a
> network, it would support more than 2 calcs, and therefore be able to do a
> multi-player game.
> 
> I know that a link has two ends.  I was told that there was a MBus hub that
> many calcs could connect to via their (two-ended) link.  This is how the
> network is set up.
> 
> The whole purpose for this question is do decern if a MBus program will be
> able to be used without the MBus hub.  I would like to make a multi-player
> game.  I would like the game to be able to support up to eight players.
> There already exists a way to network 8 TI-calcs.  I would also like people
> without the network hardware to play my game.  These people only have
> TI-links.
> 
> That is where my question is comming from.  Does that clarify anything, or
> just make it more complicated?
> 
> -Miles Raymond
>

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Re: A89: TI <--?--> I2C

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