[Coco] Internet via Coco

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:18 AM, James Dessart <skwirl42 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The actual data coming and going from the controller is only 2 bytes
> of the entire space. There are 16 bytes for data and 16 bytes of
> registers, I believe. The idea would be to have one latch to select
> which byte to address and the other to access the actual byte.
>
> Thats not too bad , so your down to 4 maybe 6 address bytes for a
bussed Ethernet controller ? Using the indirect approach that you mentioned
would still be much more efficient then a talking to a
SPI Ethernet controller . Again this is all academic , i think you would
struggle to keep up with the network data no matter what interface was
implemented :)