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Re: Lego Network Protocol questions
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 2 May 1999 23:21:06 GMT
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In article <FB13Lw.2y2@lugnet.com>, kekoa@pixel.Stanford.EDU (Kekoa
Proudfoot) wrote:

> Dave Baum <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote:
> > In article <FB0GKF.3s@lugnet.com>, "Mike Moran" <mm@ee.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > - In general, I was wondering what the low-level protocol details were,
> > >   apart from the frame/segment details that I have seen?
> > 
> > Transmit whenever you feel like it and hope you didn't obliterate data
> > coming from the other direction.  Rudimentary, but still quite effective
> > given the typical use pattern with is host driven command/response.  With
> > RCX to RCX communication you're just taking chances on missing stuff
> > unless you implement a specific master/slave relationship on top of the
> > basic messages.
> 
> Dave, did you catch the crosspost from lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos?  I think
> there were details discussed there that may or may not have amounted to a
> fairly specific proposal for a protocol for LegOS.  Anybody care to
> summarize whatever was decided?  I'd be interested in hearing also, I
> skipped a lot of the discussion.  Specifically, I would like to find out
> what was decided about the underlying packet format, down to the 55ff00s of
> the protocol.


Oops, I must've just caught the tail end of the conversation.  I assumed
the standard [lame] lego protocol was being discussed, not a custom
protocol.  Sorry.

Dave

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  Re: Lego Network Protocol questions
 
(...) Dave, did you catch the crosspost from lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos? I think there were details discussed there that may or may not have amounted to a fairly specific proposal for a protocol for LegOS. Anybody care to summarize whatever was (...) (27 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)

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