TI-H: hardware reform


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TI-H: hardware reform




hello all you geeks,

i was thinking last night about breasts, and ti-calcs. but mostly about
breasts. but anyways, when i was thinking about calcs. i got to thinking
about the incompatability ofhardware devices for the calcs. i mean, you
can have a speaker and a temp sensor and a keyboard and an expander all
hooked up at the same time can you? no. so i was thinking that in the
future, there should be a standard for the drivers. and i was thinking
that it should be i2c. several devices use it right now, and the e(g) will
use it when it is completed. and when grant finishes his avr
telnet/web/net thing, that will hopefully be i2c as well. think about it:
while connect to your favorite irc channel and checking your mail through
pine on your calc, you could be typing everything up with my new i2c
keyboard. wouldn't that be really a lot easier. and think about
multi-user-ness, how about having a bunch of people hooked up to a
simple-ass hub and using the keyboard avr, and the net avr, and the e(g)
at the sametime, without a bunch of people having to own their own device
and such. this is a chart of the addys that you can use, its pulled right
from the mbus readme. 

Address range | Description
--------------+------------------
 0            | General call
 1-15         | Reserved (by the I2C bus specifications)
 16-63        | Available
 64-79        | Reserved for PCF8574 I/O extender chips
 80-111       | Available
 112-127      | Reserved for PCF8574A I/O extender chips
 128-247      | Available
 248-255      | Reserved for I2C Extended 10-bit addressing

the keyboard will have address 16, ok grant? i hope that people can
understand my point here, and that they follow this simple guideline.
thank you

FUZZ
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