Enter URL: http://www.ensica.fr/~frances/sip.html

[be404@yfn.ysu.edu (Adalbert Goertz)]

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Goals



   The SIP project aims to provide small computers (like old 8-bit
   computers or embedded microcontrollers with little memory) with
   standard Internet access through a TCP/IP/PPP stack on top of a RS232
   link.

   This development should demonstrate that you don't need a
   Mega-Turbo-Pentium-GTI (tm Intel) with 64 MB memory, running Windows
   2010 (tm Microsoft), in order to really connect to the Net (you can
   connect to the Net using a dumb terminal, but providers of such
   accounts will be more and more rare). More than that, with such
   traffic on the Net nowadays, you could surprise your friends because a
   big cpu won't make a big difference if you can only grab a few
   hundreds of bytes per second...

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   could easily serve other 8-bit platforms than the AppleII, C64, 8-bit
   Atari's, etc., because most of it is written in C. Of course, you need
   a C compiler on your platform. On the 8088, many compilers are
   available, just pick an old enough version to develop 'tiny model'
   programs. On the 6502, I use the lcc compiler with my 6502 code
   generator, the code is very good (some people have reported it is
   better than commercial compilers like AD2500's). But I'm also
   targetting for the excellent 6502 code generator the folks at Franklin
   Electronic Publishers have developed for *GCC* !

   However, to ease development, the code is written and tested on Linux
   first.

Current state



   I'm building the stuff bottom-up, as can be seen from the following :
     * RS232 driver

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