[Coco] Coco on the internet

[Aaron Wolfe]

There was a project to port contiki to the coco at one point, but it
was abandoned before completed.

IMHO, adding internet capabilities to the CoCo's native OS is cool..
porting a generic OS not as interesting.
-Aaron

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:06 AM, James Dessart <skwirl42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Robert Layten <rlayten at mymail.lccc.edu> wrote:
>> There is a web browser for the C64, but I don't think its been updated in
>> several years.
>
> I think you're talking about Contiki. The guy who created it has moved
> Contiki into more of a control scheme for embedded microcontrollers
> than something for old 8-bit machines.
>
> However, it would work on the CoCo, as long as there's the appropriate
> internet hardware. Either a SLIP connection through a serial port, or
> an ethernet board added on. I had looked into it ages ago, but never
> got around to it. Someday, maybe.
>
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