[Coco] networking
John W. Linville
linville at tuxdriver.com
Thu Apr 16 10:40:23 EDT 2015
I am pretty sure you are mis-remembering it. There was someone who
declared that he was doing such a port, but I think that fizzled-out
long ago.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:10:45AM -0400, Al Hartman wrote:
> I didn't see it in the link, but I remember the Coco being among one of the
> original systems that Contiki was ported to.
>
> -[ Al ]-
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Hugo Dufort
>
> A few years ago (back in 2003-2004) I have written a tiny but robust
> HTML parser for an embedded system. It didn't use any complex parsing
> stack, and no regex at all. I don't know if it's been done for the
> Coco3. In theory, you could display HTML documents as text, within
> certain size and attribute limitations (as in the Lynx browser).
>
> Managing HTTP connections would be more of a challenge though. Not
> having to download images, CSS and multimedia means a single connection
> per page displayed (e.g. no parallel connections to manage) so maybe
> this would not be so tough with the single-threaded Coco3.
>
> Having no TCP-IP support on the Coco means that you'd have to program an
> IPX bridge (or another simple protocol).
>
> Projects such as Contiki have targeted 6502 platforms:
> http://www.contiki-os.org/hardware.html
>
> Hugo
>
>
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