[Coco] Telnet for Coco

[Joel Ewy]

Mike Pepe wrote:
> Do you mean, to allow an incoming connection via telnet to a coco?
>
> Requires a NIC and TCP stack, neither of which exist for the CoCo (yet)
>
>   

Actually, there was a port of KA9Q/NOS to CoCo OS-9.  On other platforms 
this software had a TCP/IP stack, built into the same binary with 
various client programs (FTP, Telnet, simple mail client).  On the CoCo, 
because of the 64K address space, it had a TCP/IP-FTP binary, a 
TCP/IP-Telnet binary, etc.  I don't remember for certain, but there 
might have been simple servers as well as clients.  The TCP/IP does SLIP.

The CoCo version has a reputation for being difficult to get working.  I 
once tried to use it to do SLIP/FTP between my TC-9 Tomcat and a '386 
SLC 40 running SLS Linux (10 1.44M floppy disk images downloaded from 
Delphi at 14.4kbps).  My recollection is that I got it to work, but it 
was agonizingly, unusably slow.  Much slower than sz/rz on the same 
machines.  I hope I don't reignite an argument by pointing out that the 
Rockwell 65c52 (a dual 6551 chip) on the Tomcat, plus the SLIP overhead, 
may have been to blame.

JCE
> However there are ways to accomplish this. One would be use something
> like a linux box as a gateway. Another would be to use something that
> has a network connection on one side and serial ports on the other. A
> Digi CM32 comes to mind as something that could do this.
>
>   
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>> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 3:22 PM
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>> Subject: [Coco] Telnet for Coco
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>> Has there been any telnet software for a Coco BBS?
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