Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> It's been a while since it was first shown publicly at KansasFest,
> but I just finished getting the info on the 17-board AppleCrate II
> up on my website.
> 
> I have not yet fully documented the new minor revision of Nadanet,
> version 2.1, but the functional changes that were made are described
> in the AppleCrate II writeup.
> 
> This is much more transportable 'Crate than the AppleCrate I, and
> it has a "master" machine built in, which I find convenient.  The
> audio subsystem is also much improved.  And, of course, it has 16
> slave processors!
> 
> The whole point of this exercise is to enable experiments with
> parallel programming, which is now the clear direction for the
> future of software.  If you have 3 or 4 Apple II's around, you
> can run NadaNet on them and experiment too--they don't have to
> be assembled into an AppleCrate!  ;-)
> 
> -michael
> 
> AppleCrate: An Apple II "blade server"!
> Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
> 
> "The wastebasket is our most important design
> tool--and it's seriously underused."
Wow.
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