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by jgerrish 1190 days ago
ApplePy experimented with providing a client-server model years ago for the 6502: https://github.com/jtauber/applepy

It's great to see somebody picking up the idea again and extending it.

It's a cool idea. Lots of possibilities for fun RPC projects with distributed processing.

Remotely accessible 80-column cards and custom mappers FTW, eh?

Good reminder that projects are meant to be implemented.
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vidarh 1190 days ago
The Commodore 64 had a client-server model for the 6502: The 1541 disk drive was attached by a serial port and ran on a 6502, and provided a "command" to write to the 1541 RAM so you could run code on it.

(Yes, this isn't entirely serious, but people could and did make use of it)

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