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Distributed Mandelbrot

BBC Micros draw the Mandelbrot set between them, each tile worked out by its own 6502 and sent back over Econet, with a Level 2 file server keeping the programs. MacBeeb's Network Studio demo: every machine here is MacBeeb, on one network.

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  1. The file server starts (it takes about 15 seconds of BBC time).
  2. The Guide logs on and shows what to do.
  3. on the Guide: it finds the workers at BASIC and starts them by remote control.
  4. on the Guide: it hands out the tiles, and draws them as they come back. A key on the Guide ends it.

Or click any screen and type on that BBC yourself.

Station 1 · the Guide
Station 254 · Level 2 file server, on a 6502 Second Processor