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Re: 80-column mode with Aztec C SYS files?

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

datajerk wrote:

On Aug 12, 2:48 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

Bill Buckels wrote:

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
For everyone who doesn't see why you posted something, there are likely one 
or two others who are glad to see it.;-)

...

NadaNet 3.0 for Apple II parallel computing!
Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/


NadaNet 3.0.  Bravo!  Given that my day job is high performance
computing, I got quite a chuckle out of that.  Got a cc65 or Aztec C
MPI too?  :-)


MPI is pretty heavyweight for an Apple II--both in complexity
and in required resources.  ;-)

The operations provided seem appropriate for a polled network
on a non-multiprogrammed machine.  Making the machine-to-machine
interactions much more general would require a lot more resources
than letting the programmer think about it and plan it out for the
specific application.  ;-)

As it stands, there is no NadaNet activity that is not explicitly
specified by the programmer, which seems like a good starting point.


I should have noted that it would be straightforward to create C
bindings for all the meaningful NadaNet operations.

I often use NadaNet from assembler, which involves some data
structure definitions, some constant definitions, some entry
points, and, optionally, some macros.  Since I usually know
what parameters are in the parameter areas, I seldom use a
general-purpose macro, preferring to set up only the parameters
that have changed prior to a call to NadaNet.

Applesoft ampersand bindings are included by default, but are
by no means the only way to use NadaNet.

-michael

NadaNet 3.0 for Apple II parallel computing!
Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/

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