Terry Olsen wrote:
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message G6udnTmK3uwZS8TZRVn-iA@comcast.com">news:G6udnTmK3uwZS8TZRVn-iA@comcast.com...Terry Olsen wrote:I don't know how you would do "multi-node" with an Apple II. Even if you put multiple serial cards in it, the OS & BBS Software doesn't multi-task...Just send each message multiple times, once to each participant. Ought to be fine for a dozen or so participants...
>> Using what software? Every BBS program that I know of that runs on the > Apple II, can only handle a single user.
I was talking about peer-to-peer chat software written for an Apple II. It doesn't exist yet, I think, but it would be a fun project. Each "peer" would keep track of the other participants and would display each message received and send each message to be sent to each recipient individually. All done with UDP to the participant's IP addresses. It would require a protocol to establish "sessions" and hand out the IP addresses (which any participating machine could do) and, if desired, a protocol like I described earlier to catch and recover from the occasional missed or duplicated UDP packet. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."