[Coco] two other things..

[mike delyea]

Yes that sounds really useful.  If I'm correct you would have a floppy
controller, an IDE controller, ethernet and at least 1 serial port on
the card?  Yes, I'd really be interested in something like that.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chuck Youse
<cyouse at serialtechnologies.com> wrote:
> .. on the drawing board, if anyone's interested in what I have coming
> up.
>
> 1. Well, I need to respin the FDC.  Couple of changes required.
> 2. A 10baseT ethernet interface w/ IP stack for NitrOS-9;
> 3. A dual 16550-compatible UART card.
>
> Hardware-wise, #2 and #3 are both easy.  Software-wise, #3 will be a
> breeze.  #2 will be tough because I'll need to write a new file manager
> and such.
>
> But I really think the only thing that makes using NitrOS-9 today
> somewhat problematic is its lack of Ethernet/IP support.  I could
> _totally_ use it as a workstation if it were networked.  And no, SLIP
> doesn't count (too slow!).
>
> For those who are dubious, no, TCP/IP isn't terribly difficult to
> implement -- TCP can be tricky when your aim is high throughput, but I'm
> not aiming at that.  We're talking limited window sizes here.
>
> C.
>
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