Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Web page for TCP/IP for the Apple IIgs

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <705676049wnr@klatch.demon.co.uk>,
John Le Febvre  <John@klatch.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article: <48bk2q$724@blackice.winternet.com>  taubert@subzero.winternet.com 
> (Derek Taubert) writes:
> > 
> > For those of you who have been waiting for more information on TCP/IP for the
> > Apple IIgs, I have created a web page to help answer some of the questions.
> > 
> >     <A HREF="http://www.winternet.com/~taubert/gstcp.html";>GS/TCP</A>
> 
> Wow!  Anyone checked out this site yet?

Yep.  It looks VERY exciting!

> There's even a PC ISA to GS interface board mentioned, with Derek
> using a 3Com 3c503 ethernet board in his GS!.  Are there any
> limitations on such an interface, any class of cards which definately
> wouldn't work..?  Possibilities are endless... 

I imagine you'd have trouble with a card that uses DMA or depends on
16-bit data transfers.

In theory, anything is possible if you just have a micro and FPGA
between the two busses, dealing with the differences in the signals.

Some cards might not work with a bus speed as low as 1 MHz.  :-)


I haven't looked at the ISA bus in enough detail to be able to say
much more than this.
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David Empson
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