[Coco] Internet via Coco

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:55 AM, James Dessart <skwirl42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

you write it, I'll use it :)

>> 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.
>

Actually IP on a chip can be found in the $5 range.  I wasn't
referring to the chip you mentioned.
In the past couple months I've looked at one TCP/IP stack w/ SPI for
$4 in single quantity, and an 802.11 module that includes TCP/IP for
free.

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