Re: Apple // networking?

[win32mfc@yahoo.com (Chris Morse)]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:51:49 -0500, Paul Bramscher
<brams006@tc.umn.edu> wrote:

>I've got a full Apple //c system and a small home LAN (including Win98
>box, Linux server, and a networked Mac iici).
>
>Just for amusement, I'm curious whether it's possible to network the
>Apple //c somehow into my environment.  As I understand it, it's
>possible to run a TCP/IP stack on a //gs (that won't help me here).  But
>I'm wondering if it's possible to network my //c via the Mac iici
>(serial connection, apple talk?).  Anyone ever do this sort of thing
>before?
>
>-Paul Bramscher
>brams006@tc.umn.edu
>

I've read that there is NO tcp/ip implementations available for the
Apple //e or //c, but there is one for the Apple //GS.

I am myself a software engineer & network programmer.  As it would
happen, in the last couple days I have been thinking about
_attempting_ to implement a tcp/ip stack for the //e and //c.

A part of my inspiration comes from IPic, the worlds smallest web
server (with, most probably, the worlds smallest TCP/IP
implementation, done in about 256 bytes of assembler!)
You can see it here:
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html

I am reading RFC 1122 and going through the 2 volume set of TCP/IP
Illustrated, and I hope that I can get to the point where I can build
a simple (but working) TCP/IP stack and Serial Line IP packetisation
(SLIP), thus allowing a //e or //c to dial into an ISP host.

Anyone out there with the skills to help me on this? =)

I used to own an Apple //e, purchased in Feb 1983, and used it
exclusively until 1988.. Then it sat in storage until I graduated
college (in 1992) at which time I donated it to a friend of mine (her
son actually) to play Lode Runner and other games on.. Since then I've
been without an Apple // of any kind - until yesterday when I
purchased a complete Apple //c from someone on eBay (with S/H it came
to just under $50!)  The only printed material I have on my bookshelf
at home is a copy of Zack's "Programming The 6502".  I recall that,
back in "the day", I used a few different assemblers.. "Merlin",
"Lisa", and "Orca/M"..   

Cheers!
// CHRIS