Simple peer to peer network?

[Jim Leonard]

Jim Brain wrote:
> I would think this would be a well researched and innovated area, low 
> speed communication without a master node.  Anyone have any pointers for 
> things to look into?

I would research Appletalk, and also -- don't laugh -- the Atari Lynx. 
The Lynx could round-robin 8 units nicely with very little latency on a 
serial link slower than yours.
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