Re: TCP/IP for 6502 commented source code

[wbdesnoy@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Ralph Glatt (julian814@hotmail.com) wrote:
: So, in other words, it's an upgraded C64, and not stock. The thing I
: want to know is, can we use this software on our Apple//s? As I
: understand it, it's supposed to allow a 6502 based computer to use
: TCP/IP connections. This would be a GREAT boon to Apple // users. No
: more having to hunt for a shell account!!

It looks like the only upgrade was to the serial port, and this was to
account for the slow ports which the C=64 originally shipped with.  IIRC
many Apple II serial cards support up to 19200 kbps, which is good enough
for our purposes.  What we need are people with the programming skills to
make this work though.  It looks like we need two things for a functional
stack:

1) drivers for the Apple II's serial ports
2) an extension for PPP (how many ISPs still use SLIP?)

If both are fulfilled then we will have an adhoc measure to get Apple II's
on the net without shell accounts, but the rest of the software would be
up to us!

Byron.