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Re: project BIG AppleCrate
aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 29, 5:38 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
I should warn you that currently AppleCrate only supports
unenhanced //e boards.
good... the ones I have are unenhanced.
I much prefer a broadcast boot over the network for bringing
up 8, 16, 32, or whatever AppleCrate boards.
I like this option best out of all you listed.
Likewise--and that's the option that currently requires the
$400 bytes of ROM space taken up by the self-test code in
unenhanced //e's. (The enhanced ROM replaces the rather poor
code in the unenhanced self-test with an improved $100-byte
self-test--not enough to hold the NadaNet equivalent of "RWTS".)
You mention that you'd like to "make it available" over the
Internet using Contiki, but, frankly, I don't see exactly how
that would be done. I didn't think that Contiki presented a
remote user with a "command line prompt" into a ProDOS machine,
for example, which would be essential to making an AppleCrate
available over the network.
contiki running webserver, you could request page "RUN PROGRAM".
webserver sees that it doesn't exist on disk. or prefix any nadanet
commands with NADA or something similar
Does this permit remote running of programs on a ProDOS control
machine? And how about user-supplied programs?
In general, to run a program on an AppleCrate requires setting up
the control machine with one or more programs and then being able
to run those programs on the control (or "master" machine) and
being able to get the output from that machine--basically a remote
command line interface.
Send the command
to the nadanet master through a serial card. Program output can
be sent to the webpage through the serial port.
Cool. Does this mean that programs would have to be EXECed and
then saved? General I/O sounds like a problem...
-michael
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