[Coco] TCP/IP Programming in Commodore BASIC

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 09:29:26 am Jonno Downes did opine:


> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at ...> writes:

> > One other Q, how fast did those commies run? (clock speed)

> 

> 1 Mhz - which is plenty to support TCP/IP - the typical 80s era home

> computer seems pretty comparable in specs to the late 60s mainframes &

> early 70s minicomputers that where the backbone of the primordial

> internet

> 

> In fact I did a demo called WebNoter (

> http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=90087 ) which has the usual

> cliches of a chip tune, bouncing sprites and text scrolling across the

> screen, but it also has an embedded web server in it - if you connect

> to it via a browser, you can edit the text in real time. The graphic

> effects are fairly uninspired, but I think proved the point there is

> enough CPU left over from the IP stack to handle the scroll text

> updates at the same time as moving the sprites and playing the tune.

> 

> This is using a card (originally called RR-NET although there also

> clones called C64NIC+) that uses a cs8900 chip to interface to

> ethernet. The chip will easily can interface to an 8-bit data bus and

> there are lots of dev modules around e.g.

> http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=200

> 

I did DL the pdf on it, and while it may be usable, the interface will be a 
bear, with 5 IRQ lines, and 3 DMARQ/DMAAK pairs, it looks like a lot of 
external translation support would be needed.  Is this the chip that this 
networking stack supports?

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