Re: Ethernet for the IIgs...

[madsci@tribeca.ios.com (Eric Dietrich)]

> Actually, there are several parallel port adapters that have driver 
> information available.  The biggest problem with these is that with a 
> unidirectional parallel port you can only pull in 4-5 bits of information at 
> a time.  Re-ordering these bits on something like a 66 MHz 486 isn't such a 
> bottleneck, but on a GS it will KILL performance.
> 
> It is much more feasible with adapters that support bidirectional parallel 
> ports.  If someone would like to investigate these (hint hint).  Building a 
> bidirectional parallel port for the GS would be a trivial endeavor.

How about designing a card specifically for this purpose?  Are most of
these PPEA's (Parallel Port Ethernet Adapters) small?  Could they,
perhaps, be plugged into the end of a card, Focus hardcard-style?  Then
you could have the card offer a DB-25 for standard printing (please!  I
like my Grappler, but that special cable is a pain!) and 10base-T or -2,
all  through the cutouts on the back of the IIgs?

And what about the SCSI ones?  That has to be faster.  

-Eric