[Coco] Internet/BBS connectivity via Coco1

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Jan 3, 2014 1:35 AM, "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> So the Coco's just kool :-)
> BTW.. what baud would I use in supercomm?

it makes no difference what you choose.  all of the mechanisms for setting
baud rate are turned into NOPs in the DW drivers, they just return success
and do nothing.

you get what you get  :)

>
> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, Jan 3, 2014 1:32 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Internet/BBS connectivity via Coco1
>
>
> I believe this is just a side effect of traffic management routines
> that are very much optimized for typical CoCo speeds.  The driver on
> the coco and the server work together in an attempt to keep the local
> OS9 buffer full using as few operations on the wire as possible.  In
> Vcc, things are very different both with overall emulated speed and
> with how the local buffering works, so it just doesn't work that well.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Aaron...
> > As a side note, in my "internet updater" routines for nitros9, I've
notice
> that my Coco3 downloads my updates faster than overclocked Vcc with a
direct TCP
> connection. Would this have something to do with the buffer over runs we
> discussed? Or is the Coco just that kool :-)
> >
> > Bill Pierce
> > My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> > Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> > http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> > Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> > http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> > E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Fri, Jan 3, 2014 1:17 am
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Internet/BBS connectivity via Coco1
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks Aaron, that will help quite a bit. With the sources to several
term
> > programs and even a few BBSs floating around, it shouldn't be hard to
create
> > something uniquely useful.
> >> In using a terminal program with dw4, is the x/ymodem protocols
supported for
> > up/downloads?
> >>
> >
> > They should be.  That was the intention but it's been a looong time
> > since I looked at that code.
> >
> >> Bill Pierce
> >> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> >> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> >> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> >> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> >> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> >> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> >> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> >>
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