[Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC

Joe Grubbs jsgrubbs at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 12 18:52:47 EDT 2015


This solution requires somehow getting the DW client on the SBC, correct? How would that be accomplished. Is ROM the only way?


> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:02:30 -0400
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC
> 
> DW allows for up to 30 multiplexed serial streams which are mapped to the
> same number of TCP sockets on the server side.  A second serial port would
> not be required.  You'd just use one of the streams as the console exactly
> as the "headless" nitros9 disks do.
> 
> This has the added benefit of being very small in memory use compared to
> drivers for a video device and a real storage controller, which might be
> critical in only 32k.  Drawback of needing a second computer to operate
> your first computer, but unless youre using dumb terminals, chances are you
> already needed a second computer.
> On Mar 12, 2015 2:57 PM, "Mathieu Chouinard" <chouimat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I like the idea of DW but will this need 2 serial ports?
> > one for the console and the other one for DW?
> > Mathieu
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Pere <psergm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I love the idea of building a minimal 6-Chip 6309 computer, the only
> > thing I
> > > would prefer on it is the USB-TTL because that way we could use
> > > Drivewire4, it would not be too difficult, even without HDB-DOS, using
> > > Tormod's DWLOAD, so we could have plenty of room to save/load programs.
> > > And the server could be any microcontroller board, no PC mandatory.
> > >
> > > To me, it would be nice to be able to add various (buffered) add-ons to
> > the
> > > Keeper-Bus.
> > > That way every user could make his little child grow as much as he/she
> > wants
> > > ... Luis' WordPak2+, Keyboard-Video, MMU and anything we could devise.
> > >
> > > The point that is more restrictive here is the fact that the RS-232 eats
> > up
> > > too many addresses, if only it could be confined to FF4x (for instance),
> > > that would be
> > > a great improvement to free a lot of space to populate the board with 64K
> > > instead of just 32K, making things easier for Nitros-9 and the like.
> > >
> > > I don't want to slow down the developing, just wanted to tell you all my
> > > thoughts about that project... I have already ordered one.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > pere
> >
> >
> >
> >
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