[Coco] KA9Q?!?!?! WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY TELL ME ???

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 23:03, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>Gene
>
>another thing that I shoulod have thought of was that Freescale and a
> couple of other companies now have a dedicated processor with all the
> hardware integrated in so that all you have to do is write a TCP/IP
> stack for them. I believe for the HC12 there is one and a rudimentary
> TCP/IP Stack that is written in C. That would take a load off the 6809
> and not have to do all that overhead.

I tried to look into that not too long ago, but it looked to be a fairly 
expensive project if you bought the devel kits etc.  Around $300 IIRC.

>Oh well tha what happens when one is tired and in a hurry. Things tend to
> be forgotten. Better excuse than getting old.

Yeah James, but we are all unavoidably getting older.  I'm now into my 7nth 
decade here.  And the coco has made me wish I had been born 20 years later 
several times so that I could have more energy to devote to it.  OTOH, 20 
years later and the educational system would have ruined me, so I am a bit 
out of time with myself regardless.  Sigh...

>james
>

>On 1 Nov 2006 at 16:05, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:29, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>> >Gene
>> >
>> >Is the source code available or is just the binaries that would need
>> > disassembly?
>>
>> The last time I looked, and thats been quite a while James so I could
>> be full of it, I think the srcs are all there.
>>
>> >One wouls have to pull the applicable RFCs to get the code even to a
>> > state where it is commented and usefull for modifications.
>>
>> Yes, and a job for an editor with a much larger buffer than any of the
>> os9 varieties.
>>
>> ATM, I can't recall if it even exists on my machine anymore.  IIRC the
>> last time I played with it was on a coco2, some before I got married
>> for the 3rd time in '89.  Out of memory was a very common error then.
>>
>> >james
>> >
>> >On 31 Oct 2006 at 21:50, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:53, Leon Howell wrote:
>> >> >I was looking for something else and found an OS-9 faq with a
>> >> > question about TCP/IP. I was curious, so I clicked on that
>> >> > question. It mentioned a program called KA9Q that was on rtsi.
>> >> > Expecting it to be for osk, I looked anyway, and found it in the
>> >> > real OS-9 (6809) section, with a readme saying it's a tcp/ip
>> >> > communications program for OS-9/6809.
>> >> >
>> >> >I've been sitting here using public access computers (how
>> >> > embarasing!) for years and how long has KA9Q been available?
>> >>
>> >> Many many years, Leon.  And I, like quite a few others I think, have
>> >> spent weeks trying to get it to work, but the near total lack of
>> >> docs rendered any efforts I made moot.  If it did try to connect,
>> >> then it was frozen solid.  Its possible that someone intimately
>> >> familiar with tcp/ip stuffs could walk around in that code and fix
>> >> it, but sadly I had zero luck as its virtually commentless.
>> >>
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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