Re: Apple // networking?

[Paul & Sharyn Bramscher <brams007@tc.umn.edu>]

Chris Morse wrote:

> A dubious hack might be to construct, on a 95/98/NT/2K/XP machine, a
> custom program that talks over an RS-232 direct connection and mimicks
> an ISP's SLIP/PPP connection and acts like a proxy server or
> something.  I've written a BBS program (essentially) for windows that
> is multi-threaded (on NT, I have configured it to run on 8 or more
> ports.)  So I do have a code base of my own to pull from for a project
> like that.  Plus, I have done extensive network programming.. The only
> thing I need to really get a handle on is the TCP/SLIP/PPP
> implementations.
>
> I'd like to hash out my ideas with other interested people to see what
> an optimal solution might be.

My personal take is that a web/news/etc. reader (regardless of connection speed)
for the Apple // line wouldn't be as useful as an ftp daemon + telnet client.
Would make it easy for us to transfer our old high school Appleworks papers onto
our PC's.  Also run any command-line app. on a Linux box without having to go
through a dialup process: pico, vi, emacs, news reader, irc, gcc, etc.

Would also be sort of amusing to ftp into a machine with 128k of RAM -- less ram
than cache on your CPU chip!

-Paul Bramscher
brams007@tc.umn.edu
brams006@tc.umn.edu