[Coco] DW4 on MAc & Linux

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:36 AM,  <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>>
>> This question may be answered by the documentation but I really
>> haven't had a chance to get into it yet and I am curious.  Maybe
>> if I don't have yet another funeral to attend this weekend :-( I
>> will finally get a DriveWire server set up.
>>
>> But, here is the question.  I understand that there can be DW
>> connections over IP links, particularly for use with emulators.
>> Is it likely that this feature could be used to connect the DW
>> Server to serial ports on a terminal server?
>
> Yes!
>
>> Can a single DW
>> Server support simultaneous connections from multiple COCO's if
>> it has multiple serial ports?
>
> Yes!
>
>> Can anyone see where I am going
>> with this?  :-)  All my COCO's tied together through one DW server.
>> What a trip!!!
>
> Sure.  There are several of us CocoNuts doing exactly that :)
>

The more I read about this the more I really want to get a server
set up.  And now I really need those cart boards so I can put DW
PROMs in all my COOC's.

bill