MCP Developers Guide

Apple Confidential ti. Apple. Macintosh Coprocessor Platform™ Developer's Guide Final Draft February 20, 1989 . o APPLE COMPUTER, INC. This manual is copyrighted by Apple, with all rights reserved Under the copyright laws, this manual may not be copied, in whole or in part, without the wrinen consent of Apple Computer, Inc. This exception does not allow copies to be made for others, whether or not sold, but all of the material purchased may be sold, given or lent to another person. Under the law, copying includes translating into another language. © Apple Computer, Inc., 1987, 1988 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertino, California 95014 (408) 996-1010 Apple, the Apple logo, AppleTalk, LaserWriter, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. LocalTalk, the Macintosh Coprocessor Platform, MR-DOS, and MPW are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. AST and AST-ICP are trademarks of AST Research, Inc. DEC is a trademark of the Digital Equipment Corporation. EtherTalk ls a trademark of ?? Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) -ls this trademarked at all, or just an industry term? NuBus is a trademark of Texas Instruments. Open Systems Integration (OSI) - trademark? or any acknowledgement for this proposed standard Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. just the initials or the whole thing? Simultaneously published in the United States and Canada. ( Contents Figures and tables I xx Preface I I 1 What Is MCP? I 1-1 The components of MCP I 1-2 The MCP hardware I 1-3 The MCP software I 1-4 MR-DOS I 1-4 Apple IPC I 1-6 Developmental diagnostics I 1-6 .. Developing with MCP I 1-6 Development opportunities and applications I 1-7 Off-loading task processing I 1-8 Parallel processing I 1-8 Interfacing or controlling I 1-8 Data acquisition I 1-9 Intemetworking I 1-9 Limitations I 1-9 2 Getting Started I 2-1 Preparing to use MCP I 2-2 Installing the MCP card I 2-2 Installing MCP software I 2-5 Installing the Apple IPC driver I 2-6 Running a sample program I 2-6 Selecting files for the sample exercise I 2-7 Downloading files to the card I 2-9 Verifying the sample exercise I 2-9 Where do you go from here? I 2-12 1 Contents 3 Introduction to the MCP Software Interface I 3-1 What is MR-DOS? I 3-2 MR-DOS primitives I 3-2 MR-DOS utilities I 3-3 MR-DOS managers I 3-3 Echo Manager I 3-4 IncerCard Communications Manager OCCM) I 3-4 Name Manager I 3-5 Print Manager I 3-5 Remote System Manager (RSM) I 3-5 Timer library and Timer Manager I 3-6 Trace Manager I 3-6 What is Apple IPC? I 3-7 Apple IPC driver I 3-7 Apple IPC library I 3-8 . Apple IPC managers I 3-8 Functions of MCP software I 3-9 Using messages for interprocess communication I 3-9 Message structures I 3-9 Mechanisms for data transfer I 3-14 Message and status codes I 3-14 The client/server relationship I 3-15 Clients and servers running on a smart card under MR-DOS I 3-15 Clients and servers running on the Macintosh II…