[Coco] Drivewire client for OS9/68K

[Joel Ewy]

On 08/27/2010 10:54 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Bob Devries<devries.bob at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>> what are the chances of a drivewire client being built for OS9/68000? The (extended) MM/1 is well endowed with serial ports via the 68070, 68901 and 68681 chips. I'm sure they'd be capable of the speek necessary.
>>      
> Does OS9/68k have any native IP capability?

Not really.  The "Personal" OS-9 that came with the MM/1 has no TCP/IP.  
There was a TCP/IP package available for hundreds of dollars, aimed 
mostly at industrial systems.  The MM/1 has no Ethernet hardware, only 
UART serial ports (quite a few of them, really) so any TCP/IP must have 
SLIP or PPP to be of any use on the MM/1.  Some of the '68K machines of 
the time (such as the "MM/1b" did have an ISA bus and may have supported 
PC Ethernet cards.

There was a KA9Q-derived package for OS-9/68K, and I recall that I 
bought a package from Chris Hawks at a CoCofest (probably '98-'00) that 
did SLIP (I think) and provided a socket library.  It may have been 
called SOX.  I think I got as far as telnetting to Apache running on a 
Linux box and manually sending it HTTP commands when my MM/1 HD died the 
first time and I never got back to that project.  I probably still have 
the floppy.

> If so, you might want to
> run DW over IP rather than serial.

Since this would be DW over IP over serial, I suspect just the raw DW 
protocol would be a better option.

JCE

> Otherwise I'd suppose it's "just"
> a matter of translating the dw3, dwread and dwwrite modules to 68k.
> Bitbanger and fifo/MESS versions are in CVS, but I think Darren wrote
> a UART based version that might be more useful to you than either of
> those.  Not sure where that is, or if I am recalling correctly.
>
>    
>> I notics that it is no longer possible to browse the source tree of NitrOS9; else I'd have a go myself at trying to build a 68K version.
>>
>>      
>
> http://nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nitros9/nitros9/
>
> and something like:
>
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nitros9
> co -P nitros9
>
> both should work, tested the web access and it's fine.  What means of
> browsing the source were you trying that failed?  I'll try to fix if I
> can.
>
>
>
>    
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>
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