[Coco] Drivewire client for OS9/68K

[David Hazelton]

On 8/28/2010 12:52 AM, Joel Ewy wrote:
> 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.
>
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Even on industrial machines the IP stack was external on v 2.4,  at 
least with the OS9 based machines I worked with at the turn of the 
century.  I ended up buying the stack along with NFS back then, but the 
ethernet controller for the package only included a driver for a certain 
chip, that was used on this particular computer.  And no one used this 
chip on a ISA card that I could find.

I believe I might still have the software, because I wanted to see if I 
could get my the MM/1B networked.  But creating a Network card driver is 
beyond my expertise.

I did get KA9Q working on it,  Used to connect the MM1/B to a Mac and do 
FTP over it.   MM/1B has been silent for many years though.