[Coco] Coco on the internet

[Robert Hermanek]

Depends on your definition of "possible."  I started a basic HTML browser at 
one point, but it wasn't exactly a stand-alone approach:  The browser app on 
the coco would send the "internet" request out the serial port using a 
protocol I made up.  A server applicaiton on the PC would then make a TCP 
connection to the URL the coco requested, and when the response came back 
from the real world, it would drop it back down the serial cable to the 
coco.  But the coco was shielded from the harsh realities of modern 
bandwidth by the PC application.  If a website returned 25k of data, the PC 
application stored that, and it was fed to the coco as the coco demanded it. 
So yes, the coco had a very simple html browser, but it would never have 
worked in real time with modern websites without the PC spooling up the 
responses and managing them.

-Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
To: "Coco Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 5:12 PM
Subject: [Coco] Coco on the internet


> First, is it possible for Coco to surf the internet, and second, what does
> it take
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