[Coco] Retro Challenge 4/2017 Project

Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com
Wed Apr 5 01:25:47 EDT 2017


It would be nice to know if 68k OS9 ever had networking.  At least it 
would provide a pattern to follow.

Dave


On 4/5/2017 12:21 AM, Brett Gordon wrote:
> It'll be interesting to see the *speed*. 10Mbs and fully buffered
> communication link seems double fine.  It will provide for some (possibly)
> scary fast transfers, much like SD or IDE(ATA), where to coco bus is the
> bottleneck.  I guess my project is similar to ATA over ethernet, the basis
> to modern-day SAN storage.
>
> At least it'll provide a code example in 6809 asm.  It shouldn't be too
> hard to duplicate the same mechanism in UDP/IP.
>
> My code should give somebody a nice jumping off point to a 6809 library
> (that you add to your own project) to do simple UDP/IP/ARP/DHCP.
>
> OS9 has no common interface for networking :(  Maybe there was something
> layed out for os68k?
> On Apr 2, 2017 11:54 AM, "Brett Gordon" <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have posted some entries, and code so far:
>>
>> https://www.sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/home/retrochallenge
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Awesome! Good luck!
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/04/2017 1:12 AM, Brett Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/home/retrochallenge
>>>>
>>>> My entry into This month's retro challenge !
>>>>
>>>> brett
>>>>
>>>>
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