[Coco] NitrOS-9 Tools for the CoCoIOn Ethernet Card

[Mark D. Overholser]

On 5/27/22 13:59, rick ulland via Coco wrote:
> Forget Jolt Cola, we drank 15 gallons of 'free' coffee last fest(true 
> stat). Grab yer towel and come to Chicago 2023!
> 

That cost the club $38.00, per Gallon....   ( Until the price was 
adjusted... )


> The pre-CoVID ‘CoCoIO’ had WizNet networking and 16550 serial in a 
> ROMpak. The idea was the old Fast232 driver as a reason to buy while 
> network code grew up. Well, that chip vanished in a hot minute one 
> March. Not out of stock, just... gone. (It’s back 4/2022, quan=0 but 
> that’s something)
> 

I'm still hoping for the 16500 to Appear, from Somewhere...



> So 2 years later we have network only, in two modes. Both based on the 
> 16K on chip buffer and one byte serial dataport. Raw mode is where Mikey 
> is building a real network stack for drivewire et al. And then we have 
> prefab TCP, which I am using to write a web browser in Basic09.
> 

DriveWire Abstraction is a Start....   Drivers for all the OS' is where 
it will eventually be..


> But this is all mem mapped to 'an CoCo' for anything beyond the basics. 
> We don’t have the CPU ponies for encryption. No wifi, no SSL. Just an RJ 
> jack on a rompak. I think that is the fun of this project.
> 

A Proxy will be a needed addition, in the future...

> -ricku
> 
> 

MarkO