Re: Handic VIC-Switch

From: Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson_at_sfks.se>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 12:25:54 +0100
Message-ID: <AE2B3A8BC1D6462A89D92B73C5A9D5EC@ryds>
smf wrote:

> How reliable do you want it, if two computers try to talk to two seperate 
> devices at the same time?

Interesting question, and perhaps the possible use cases should be defined 
before a design is made. I mean it is not like we're about to equip whole 
schools and offices with 8-bit Commodore gear starting in 2018. I understood 
the original intent was to hook up a couple of computers to a single drive 
(perhaps a HDD on the IEC bus) in your home environment. While you indeed 
could have visitors or run some software that accesses drives on its own, 
the idea of several computers and drives in some kind of star net perhaps 
never will exist.

Feature creep can be a good thing as long as those are features that 
actually are requested in real life, but orthogonally designing a system for 
every thinkable possibility that will make it more difficult to design, 
probably more expensive and take longer time as well, should be thought 
twice about.

Best regards

Anders Carlsson


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