[Coco] Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???

[David Ladd]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:43:52 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???
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> > In TRS-80 email list, in February, will touched this topic
> > Raspberry Pi as Virtual Floppy Disk???
> > Are saying Review it, you can also do to the coco
>
> You should be able to run a DriveEire Server on a RaspberryPi.
> Isn't that a bit better than just a Virtual Floppy Disk?
>
> Does drivewire run on Linux?
> I thought it only ran on Windows.
>

DriveWire Server runs on anything that has JRE 6 or newer.  This includes
the Linksys NSLU2, phones, and almost anything else you can get system
level access to.



>
> The Rpi doesn't support java at the moment, and running the graphical
> desktop is pretty sluggish.
>

Actually the part about Raspberry Pi does not support java is not true.
Currently I have java 7 on my raspberry pi and running the drivewireserver
on it with two USB RS232 dongles without any problem.

As far as the graphical part goes I turn the gui off so as all horse power
goes to the raw server parts of the programs.


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