[Coco] RS232 to WiFi/Ethernet

[Allen Huffman]

> Drivewire has provided telnet and "internet BBS" capability to any OS9
> software for many years now.  Even better, the user space tools like telnet
> are designed to work with Boisy's network library, so any mechanism that
> implements these low level calls can take advantage of work already
> completed for telnet and other protocols (wget for http things for
> example).. even if they have nothing to do with Drivewire.  We already
> designed with the hope that some other mechanism would become available.

Is there any support for RS-DOS for this?

The great thing about the $8 hardware solution is, with proper firmware, it could be made to look like DW protocol for those items, and leverage the httpd, etc. that exist for NitrOS-9 :-)

> I don't have the time to monitor this issue closely each time it comes up,
> but I do hope someone involved in this latest attempt is familiar with the
> existing body of work.  Regardless of what hardware you use to replace the
> PC in a drivewire like solution, you also need the Coco side stuff.  We
> already did that, and we did it in the hopes something better than
> Drivewire would be underneath from day one


Yes, I wouldn’t expect anyone already doing this with DW to be interested.

		— A