Re: Tonight on Slashdot, BSD TCP stack on IIgs

[Mike Pfaiffer <mike@digitalcivilization..ca>]

Dosius wrote:

> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/0355231&tid=
> 
> Berkeley TCP socket interface for the Apple IIgs
> 
> Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday July 11, @02:30AM
> from the dusting-it-off dept.
> Scott C. Linnenbringer writes "In case you wanted to do something cool
> with your fancy little Apple IIgs in the back room, you can use GS/TCP
> to implement a standard BSD socket interface, allowing you to connect
> via SLIP, MacIP, and soon PPP on a GNO/ME (GNO Multitasking
> Environment) UNIX system for the IIgs, now completely abandoned,
> open-sourced and labeled freeware. GS/TCP also comes with ftp and
> inetd, built with ORCA/C directly from BSDi sources (hacked, of
> course,) and a text web browser for GNO/ME can be found at the
> website."
> 
> BTW... I just barely missed fr1st ps0t :D
> 
> -uso.

        Cool. I've always thought GNO/ME had a lot of potential. Especially if it
could be separated from GSOS (which is good in it's own way too). If it
could be modified to work with an ethernet card then a lot more can be done
(eg. LAN, Cable, DSL connections).

                                Later
                                Mike



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