I am wanting to use an Apple IIe as a primary computer to program to
evaluate problems/tasks and then route them for actual processing as
subroutines to other Apple IIes, then collecting the finished result from
the other Apple IIes and integrating them and processing their results in a
final problem/task.
Example: entering an equation, analyzing it for subroutines/processes,
sending those to different Apple IIes for processing and then entering the
results back into the original equation for solution.
Can this be done though the disk drive connections connecting Apple IIes to
each other rather than to disk drives, connecting 2 Apple IIes to the main
Apple IIe, and additional two to each of those two, etc.
I know it would require writing a program to replace DOS which would
transmit data to the secondary tier of Apple IIes and would read data
transmitted back. Not to mention a program to analyze the
problem/task/equation to break it down into units to send to the Apple IIes
for processing and then to take the data returned and re integrate it into
the original equation and solve. A similar program would be in the
secondary tier of Apple IIes to analyze the problem/task/equation sent it to
break it down into units to send to a third tier of Apple IIes for
processing and then to take the data from the third tier back and re
integrate it into the original equation, solve and transmit to the primary
Apple IIe.
The DOS replacement program would signal data transmission, and respnond to
a data transmission signal from an other Apple IIe just as it would signal a
disk drive to receive data to copy to disk and to received data played back
off of a disk.
an over symplification:
(a+3)x
(a+3)x + (b-2)y
third tier Apple IIe < etc
second tier Apple IIe <
(b-2)y
(a+3)x + (b-2)y + (c/2+7)z + (2d-4) = n third tier
Apple IIe < etc
primary Apple IIe <
(c/2+7)z
(c/2+7)z + (2d-4)
third tier Apple IIe < etc
second tier Apple IIe <
(2d-4)
third tier Apple IIe < etc
Questions:
1. Can data be transmitied through diskdrive cards/connections between Apple
IIes in terms of electronic issues, if a program was written to replace DOS
to do it?
2. What would the limit of tiers of Apple IIes be, electronically, if any?
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