[Color Computer] Re:[coco] www on coco

[Mark Marlette]

Curtis,

Correct on the devices supported protocols.

Basically everything.

Done on a serial connection to an embedded processor that off loads  
all of the work and just supplies data to the CoCo.

No internal soldering. It WILL require a 16550 serial port.

Getting Email from your ISP is ~5 lines of code.........

All FLASHABLE so as updates come out they will be uploaded to the firmware.

Cheap? Nope.....As Mike has pointed out, the Rabbit has a solution.  
Mine is not the Rabbit, but costs as much if not more. I have done all  
of the research and will not switch platforms. This is a MAJOR task  
alone.

They even support wireless.

So you won't need the SB, just a 16550 type interface. We will be  
supporting this through NitrOS-9. Some one wants to make a HDB-DOS or  
RSDOS driver. The documentation will be provided.

Regards,

Mark

Quoting "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>:

> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:21:41 -0600, Tad Burnett <tburnett at vermontel.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Can you find an ISP that will talk to you using the slow baud and packet
>> size...
>> Are you willing to pay long distance charges
>>  to reach it...
>>
>> How about the idea of using a PC at your location to serve as a link
>> between
>> a DSL internet and a CoCo ..
>> PC could also be used as a mass storage device to connect to a plane Jane
>> CoCo through the tape drive port...
>>
>> Instead of hard ware changes to the CoCo that only a few would try
>> software could be written and shared by many....
>> Tad
>>
>
>      That's not a bad idea, although I am suprised that one would need long
> distance to contact a modem based ISP... here in Canada, pretty well all
> ISP's have both (especially for rural areas, where you can't get
> broadband).
>      I know Mark's Superboard is supposed to have a TCP/IP hardware chip on
> it that handles the packet handling, so that would make things much easier
> (I believe it even includes the outside PPP layer as well), as well as
> some of the protocols within TCP/IP (FTP, etc.), but that would only
> appeal to the hardcore hackers who don't mind soldering inside of their
> machines (I would have to get someone to do that for me... my soldering
> skills suck).
>     The only problem with hosting on a local PC is that one would have to
> make it cross platform to cover all of the Coco users who also have a
> "main" PC... you would have to write for Windows, Linux and OS X.
>      The other thing is that since Contiki is on a C-64 (an inferior
> machine to a Coco 3), and they did it, is that there is the challenge of
> getting it to work on a Coco... which is the reason a lot of us did a lot
> of the stuff for the Coco and OS9 over the last 2 decades.
>
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