[Building Sakai] New Sakai Architecture

[Brian Baillargeon]

Sounds pretty ambitious to me. I think we should limit scope, get things 
working with tape. Leave the grade calculations to human computers until 
we get there.

On 15-04-01 09:03 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
> It needs to work on my first gen Kindle. A text interface makes a lot 
> of sense. It needs to wrap ok, too.
>
> On 1 April 2015 at 13:58, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org 
> <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Miguel.
>
>     Yes, very good points. See my suggestions inline.
>
>
>     On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Miguel Carro Pellicer
>     <mcarro at entornosdeformacion.com
>     <mailto:mcarro at entornosdeformacion.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Neal,
>
>         I suggest to minimize the number of code lines, my 32MB hard
>         disk does not have too much capacity :(
>
>
>     I think one way to do this is to truncate the code to the point
>     that it fits and subtract an additional 3 characters and put the
>     word "END".  The computer should figure out that is all that is
>     available and make it work with whatever it has got. Of course,
>     that is not i18n compatible so maybe we need a resource string
>     instead?
>
>
>         Also teachers will be happy if they have some console
>         interface to insert the grades in Gradebook, reading a text
>         file with some format or something :)
>
>     This could help towards the code reduction! Nice thinking!
>
>
>         Regards, Miguel
>
>
>         El 01/04/2015 a las 13:45, Neal Caidin escribió:
>>         Hi sakai-dev,
>>
>>         Some discussion in the community about starting Sakai over
>>         from scratch.
>>
>>         A couple of the leading architectural suggestions include:
>>
>>         * Writing Sakai completely in Hypercard and using Docker for
>>         code distribution to each person's local machine. If
>>         necesssary including a 1996 Mac emulator in the bundle. For
>>         the occassional "multi-user" version you will need a server
>>         to which all the Hypercard stacks are sent, and then use Perl
>>         to process the data.
>>
>>         * A DIY kit of 6502 microprocessors for speedy 8 bit
>>         processing. Each kit will include a series of 128
>>         pre-programmed ROMs that can be connected in serial to
>>         provide the Sakai program. Don't worry, we will not need to
>>         write this in Assembly, we will use Cobol on a time share for
>>         the development.
>>
>>
>>         Other ideas welcome. This is the "brainstorm" stage.
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>         Neal
>>
>>
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