[Coco] Real close with DriveWire 4 on Raspberry Pi, but...

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>
>> On 01/17/2014 02:36 PM, Juan Castro wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe you could try this? http://sourceforge.net/projects/dwlite/
>>>
>>>  Looks like a cool project.  Do you have any more documentation or
>> information about it?
>>
>
> Well, I wrote it. Feel free to ask anything. It was a quick and dirty
> solution so I could get the RPi to serve disks to the CoCo without
> screaming in agony. (And mine is one of the earlier ones, 256 MB!) Not
> having to run the JVM makes ALL the difference in the world.
>
> Take a look at the TODO file, if there's anything else you think should be
> done, please do suggest.
>

Its great to have more implementations, but I wonder why the RPi had
any trouble running the DW4 server (or maybe you only tried running
the GUI, which does stress the Pi a bit).

FWIW, the DW4 server runs fine (and at full wire speed) on a NSLU2,
which is a 133Mhz processor and has only 32MB ram.  I can't imagine
the much, much more powerful Pi struggling with it.