Re: CF Wifi on Apple 2 possible??

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Mar 20, 12:05 pm, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 19, 6:16 pm, "mdj" <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, you can almost bet money that the card has the
> > stupidest, simplest possible hardware implementation
>
> Which can be good for the apple II....
>
> >and pushes a
> > great deal of the workload onto the host -
>
> Which is extremely bad for the apple II...
>
> I have a wireless card here, apparently the only one that will work
> with a 266mhz laptop.  With the wireless card installed, the computer
> CRAWLS.  With the wired ethernet, the computer is decent with win98.
> I guess the CPU is probably manually hitting the antenna with signal,
> just like our Apple II's did with the speaker :-)  Varying the timing
> loops prolly gets you the 2.6ghz...  :-)...  Hey, that'd mean the card
> has a X10 multiplier.  So 266mhz gets to 2ghz..  I wonder??

Yeah. Even on my system (a 2.0Ghz Dual Core x86-64 box) you can see a
non-trivial amount of CPU power eaten during network transfers :-(

One *possible* way to get wireless, if somebody ever develops a USB
adaptor would be to use bluetooth, which is a much simpler protocol
stack and simpler hardware that could probably be implemented in
firmware on the Apple II

Matt