[Coco] networking

[John W. Linville]

Yep.  He never got it at all...

	http://sourceforge.net/p/contiki/mailman/message/3590409/

"My schedule just isn't allowing me any time to work on it, and
as a result, it hasn't happened."

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:08:30AM -0400, Al Hartman wrote:
> Nope. Not mis-remembering it...
> 
> "James Dessart ported Contiki to the CoCo Color Computer." (
> http://skwirl.com/coco/ )
> 
> http://www.contiki-os.org/community.html
> 
> But, I think James gave up on his port, and it is not currently a supported
> platform.
> 
> -[ Al ]-
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: John W. Linville
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:40 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] networking
> 
> 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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