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From: LENOIL@mit-xx.arpa (Robert S. Lenoil)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Computer interfaces for BSR Home control Systems
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 12:48:58 EST
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A while back myself and a former company I was involved with created a
gadget to allow a Commodore 64 to control a home's BSR devices.  The
software was quite revolutionary at the time, as it provided a "hot key"
(similar to Sidekick) that would allow you to suspend any running program
on the C64, control some devices, check on their status, enqueue commands
for later execution, and then return to your program.  It included a
nice interrupt-driven queueing mechanism that could send a command to a
BSR device, execute any arbitrary machine code program, and even requeue
the command, all without disturbing the currently executing application.
Unfortunately the product was developed for HES, which went bankrupt
before the product ever saw the light of day.  Oh well, I still have my
working prototype (and that's all I have for 10 months of hard work).
Life goes on...
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