[Coco] Tcp off-loading on CoCo

[Mark D. Overholser]

On 13-Apr-17 06:02, Zippster wrote:
> NMI is available at the cart port, of course it’s kind of slow.  It
> may be possible to use the CART interrupt also (FIRQ).
>
> It might be better to poll a status bit set by the MCU to see if data
> is in the buffer and ready for transfer in some situations instead.
>
> - Ed
>



The WizNet W5100 has a 8K Receive Buffer and a 8K Transmit Buffer...

The ESP8266 seems to have about 36Kb of User Memory available to the 
User in Heap and Data..

So a Status Bit could work for Signaling when the Buffers Need to be 
"checked"..


MarkO