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MITOSP: MIKEOS INFORMATION TRANSFER OVER SERIAL PORTS version 1
MITOSP is the new TCP/IP. But a hell of a lot slower. One MikeOS computer is
connected to another router MikeOS computer. The router computer* is connected
to up to three other computers. Each computer has a number, like an IP address
but only a single byte long.
Let's call the first client computer 1. The second client computer is 2. 1 and
2 are connected to the router computer via serial port. 1 is plugged into the
router's COM1 port, and 2 is plugged into COM2. The user at 2 (let's call him
Troy) wants to send JAKINBOX.BIN to the user at 1 (let's call him Mike.) Troy
tells his computer to send JAKINBOX.BIN to 1. 2 reads JAKINBOX.BIN into an 8K
buffer. 2 tells the router to tell 1 to ask Mike if he approves of recieving
JAKINBOX.BIN from 2.
If Mike says yes, 1 tells the router to tell 2 to send the first 2K of the
buffer to the router. The router waits for the 2K, and sends that off to 1. 1
adds the 2K it got from the router to the buffer, and requests more. If 2 says
that the next byte after 2K is null, it sends an EOF to 1. 1 then makes a file
called JAKINBOX.BIN (or if that's taken, asks Mike for a name) out of the 8K
buffer. Voila, Mike and Troy can share files!
Messages are just sooo much easier. Troy types his message, sends it to Mike**
and 2 does the rest. 2 sends the message to the router, who sends it to 1.
Mike gets an os_dialog_box with the message. Mike can then vice-versa the
process and send a message back to Troy, who will get a dialog with Mike's
message. This could be adapted into a mail program.
* the router computer and all other computers need to be running a similar
version of MikeOS.
** logically this would work best with login names.EDIT: You can see the original post(s) at https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/mike ... 00016.html and https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/mike ... 00030.html
