[Coco] DriveWire survey

[CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts]

On May 11, 2014 1:46 AM, "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> On 5/11/2014 12:39 AM, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts wrote:
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>> Well, I don't think I'd call it a crutch.  I'd call it a good first
step.  I can easily ship some HW that could create a virtual bridge from
serial to TCP/IP.  You'd just need to modify the DW server to accept a
connection via TCP/IP, not serial.  Then, modify the codebase to handle
multiple incoming TCP/IP connections.  Finally, separate the GUI from the
server...
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> Looks like DW4 can accept incoming connections from TCP/IP already, so
maybe it's just a HW exercise, no SW mods needed.
>

Yep, all of that is done.. Gui and server are already separate and talk to
each other via IP, server happily accepts or initiates TCP connections in
place of the serial link, etc.  I've wanted to do something like you
suggest forever, but I'm limited to the software side, so its all there
just waiting :). Basically all of DriveWire is designed in hopes it can be
replaced by something better without breaking the things that are built on
top of it.

-Aaron