[Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 18:02:30 EDT 2015


DW allows for up to 30 multiplexed serial streams which are mapped to the
same number of TCP sockets on the server side.  A second serial port would
not be required.  You'd just use one of the streams as the console exactly
as the "headless" nitros9 disks do.

This has the added benefit of being very small in memory use compared to
drivers for a video device and a real storage controller, which might be
critical in only 32k.  Drawback of needing a second computer to operate
your first computer, but unless youre using dumb terminals, chances are you
already needed a second computer.
On Mar 12, 2015 2:57 PM, "Mathieu Chouinard" <chouimat at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the idea of DW but will this need 2 serial ports?
> one for the console and the other one for DW?
> Mathieu
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Pere <psergm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I love the idea of building a minimal 6-Chip 6309 computer, the only
> thing I
> > would prefer on it is the USB-TTL because that way we could use
> > Drivewire4, it would not be too difficult, even without HDB-DOS, using
> > Tormod's DWLOAD, so we could have plenty of room to save/load programs.
> > And the server could be any microcontroller board, no PC mandatory.
> >
> > To me, it would be nice to be able to add various (buffered) add-ons to
> the
> > Keeper-Bus.
> > That way every user could make his little child grow as much as he/she
> wants
> > ... Luis' WordPak2+, Keyboard-Video, MMU and anything we could devise.
> >
> > The point that is more restrictive here is the fact that the RS-232 eats
> up
> > too many addresses, if only it could be confined to FF4x (for instance),
> > that would be
> > a great improvement to free a lot of space to populate the board with 64K
> > instead of just 32K, making things easier for Nitros-9 and the like.
> >
> > I don't want to slow down the developing, just wanted to tell you all my
> > thoughts about that project... I have already ordered one.
> >
> > cheers
> > pere
>
>
>
>
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