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From: scott@vortex.uoregon.edu (scott settlemier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Midi Rings
Summary: Midi Networking
Message-ID: <1990Mar16.045429.21246@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 04:54:29 GMT
Reply-To: scott@vortex.uoregon.edu (Scott Settlemier)
Organization: Donnelly Group, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene
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I was thinking recently about how to crunch some big problems that
are very well suited to parallel algorithms and not knowing much about
networks thought this:

	Connect several ataris with midi cables in a ring so that
	the one on the left sends output to the right and gets input
	from the left. You then assign each computer a reference #
	and just preceed any packet with the number.

	To send to one computer send the packet to the right.
	If a computer receives a packet not for it, it just retransmits.

	This would work great for raytracing and I bet it would be
	really cheap compared to more expensive machines plus you could
	play some really neat games.

Also, I need some help to read my atari disks with my source code on my
new 386 machine. They are the same format aren't they? What do I do to
the disks so my 386 can read them? I need to be able to do this with my
386 since I can't get to the atari for quite awhile. Thanks.