[Coco] Internet via Coco

[James Dessart]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suppose it just depends on whether your interest is in the IP stack
> itself, or in using TCP/IP to do things.

My interest is in having the CoCo operate independently of any other
processor. I'm not sure what use a twitter client for the CoCo is,
apart from the cool factor, but having it running off an IP stack on
the CoCo itself is even cooler. Maybe if I get the motivation and can
fit my CoCo into my next apartment I'll work on that. An SPI-based
driver would be much easier to program than trying to fold a 32-byte
address space into something reasonable for a CoCo with other cards,
and much simpler, hardware-wise.

> I can see how writing or porting an existing IP stack to the coco
> would be an interesting project, but to an
> end user who wants to "do internet stuff" or to an application
> programmer who wants to "write internet stuff",
> whether the stack is implemented in the 6809 or in a $5 chip in their
> network hardware makes little difference.

The chips that implement an actual TCP/IP stack are more expensive
than that. The $5 chip I was talking about is just a plain, old
ethernet chip, just like you would find in a network card on a PC.

-- 
James Dessart
<http://ideaoubliette.blogspot.com/>