Macintosh Coprocessor Platform Developers Guide Nov1989

Apple. Macintosh.Coprocessor Platfonn,. Developer's Guide Beta Draft, 29 November 1989 Networking &: Communications Publications Network Integration Group Keith Grigoletto Apple ContldenHal • APPLE COMPUTEll, INC. This manual is copyrighted by Apple, with all rights reserved. Under the copyright laws, this manual may not be ropied, in whole or in part, without the written consent of Apple Computer, Inc. This exception does not allow copies to be made for others, whether or nct 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. (l Apple Computer, Inc., 1987, lses,l~ 20525 Mariani Avenue Cupertino, California 95014 (4re)?)6.1010 Apple, the Apple logo, AppleTaIk, LaserWriter, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. AlROSE, Loca1Talk, the Macintosh Coprocessor Platform, and MPW are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. ASf and AST-ICP are trademarks of ASr Research, Inc. DEC is a trademark of the Digital Equipment Corporation. Ethernet Is a trademark of 11 NuBus is a trademark of Texas Instruments. Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corpaation. Simultaneously published in the United States and Canada. Contents Figures and tables / xx Preface / xx What you should know How to use this guide Equipment and system requirements Important safety instructions Conventions used in this guide / xx Terminology Part I Getting Started With MCP 1 What Is MOJ? / 1·1 The canponents of MCP / 1-2 The MCP hardware / 1-3 The MCP software / 1-4 AlROSE /1-5 IAlROS! Prep / 1~ Developmental diagnostics / 1~ Developing with MCP / 1-6 Development opportunities and applications / 1-7 Off-loading task processing / 1-8 Parallel processing / 1-8 Interfacing or controlling / 1-8 Data acquisition / 1-8 Intemetworking / 1-8 limitations / 1-9 2 Getting Started / 2-1 Preparing to use MCP / 2-2 Installing the MCP card / 2-2 Installing MCP software / 2-6 Installing the AlROSE Prep driver / 2~ I viii Running a sample program / 2-7 Selecting files for the sample exercise / 2-8 Downloading files to the card / 2-10 Verifying the sample exercise / 2-10 Where do you go from here? / 2-12 iv Contents Part n Software Development / 3 The MCP Software Interface / 3-1 What is A/ROSE? / 3-2 A/ROSE primitives / 3-2 AlROSE utilities / 3-2 AlROSE managers f 3-2 Echo Manager / H InleICard Communications Manager QCCM) / 3-5 Name Mana8er I 3-5 Print Manaser I 3-5 Remote System Manager (RSM) I 3-5 Tuner library and Tuner Manager / 3-6 Trace Manager I 3-6 What is A/ROSE Prep? / 3-7 A/ROSE Prep driver / 3-7 A/ROSE Prep library / 3-8 A/ROSE Prep managers / 3-8 FunC1ions of MCP software / 3-8 Using messages for interprocess communication / 3-9 Message structures I 3-9 Mechanisms for data transfer I 3-13 Message and status codes I 3-14 The dient/server relationship / 3-14 Client and server ruruUns orr …