[Coco] CoCo Ethernet for $25-$30...

[Frank Pittel]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 01:45:17PM -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> > I have ben waiting over a decade for someone to come out with some way to get a CoCo on the internet without it just being a PC on the internet with a CoCo attached... Still hasn't happened, so I guess one of us will do it then figure out a way to standardize the interface so software can be written.
> >
> 
> I don't think this assessment is fair.  The web server, telnet client,
> inetd, smtp client, etc that work with DriveWire 4 all process their
> respective protocols at the TCP layer.
> 
> The DW4 server is doing no more work than the wiznet chip does, in
> fact the DW TCP API is designed specifically so that a wiznet chip can
> be used in place of the DW server and the same client programs we
> already have written.
> 
> Connecting a CoCo to the internet via an offloaded TCP/IP chip is
> cool, don't get me wrong.  I designed the networking in DW4 with
> exactly that as the eventual goal.  However, to same one method of
> providing the stack externally is somehow more "real" than another...
> I don't see it.

Now that you mention it I remember you having set up a coco connected to the
internet via telnet a number of years ago. At the same time there was talk of
using a coco as a web-browser and web-server. I wasn't aware that the API is the
same as what wiznet uses.


The Other Frank