Re: project BIG AppleCrate

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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.

> 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

Send the command
to the nadanet master through a serial card.  Program output can
be sent to the webpage through the serial port.