[Coco] OT: Compiler fun - and Coco Ethernet

Benoit Bleau benbleau at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 00:12:41 EDT 2008


> Actually I got the first run of production PCBs today, not just the
> Ethernet but a few other things I mentioned as well (bootable IDE
> controller, bootable high-density no-halt floppy controller, and dual
> 16550/PC Parallel port card).  I'll be in the lab on Wednesday
> assembling and doing initial testing.
>
> As for the network stack, probably in the form of a file manager.
> Initially I'll write some user-space code to demonstrate basic
> functionality, e.g., TFTP client/server and maybe a web server, just so
> I can get the thing out to people with some sort of demo software...
> but ultimately I'd like a real Berkeleyish socket interface.  Due to the
> lack of select() system call that means things like a 'telnet' client
> will have to be implemented as multiple processes, but OS-9 is
> thankfully quite good at that :)
>   

Chuck,
Please put me down for one of each :)  I'll be happy to beta test , 
although my OS9 programming skills aren't too great.

-Benoit



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