[rescue] RAIP

[Dave McGuire]

  Actually, there's a DSP56001 chip in each NeXT system.  *That* could
do some real work, leaving the M68K and the rest of the NeXT machine to
be a communications support platform.

     -Dave MGuire

On July 9, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Hmm.  Well, don't most of those things have 2 serial ports?  Just connect
> one to the next on down the line, then setup each of them to run something
> like PPP and do routing.  That should leave about 5% of the CPU power for
> doing the real work.
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:26:14PM -0500, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> > > 
> > > Nice thing about NeXTs is that the distributed processing software comes
> > > with it; zilla.app was a wonderous thing.
> > 
> > but where's the fun in that.
> > 
> > #1 reason the RAIP project never got off the group: "now how the hell do we get
> > these blasted things to talk to each other?" :)
> > 
> > -brian
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