Byron A Jeff wrote:

> The traditional way of doing it: polling, can end up being very slow.
> So I was thinking of new ways to manage multiple stations.  What I
> came up with is adding a separate collision channel to manage the
> multiple hosts.  Essentially it's another faster form of polling.

  I think that the progressive binary tree polling used in the Dallas
One Wire Protocol is the way to go.  One channel does all, I'm sure it
does it just as fast as any other scheme you may propose.

  Rather than attempt to explain it all over again, I suggest you read
it from their website and then discuss it.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.