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Re: Porting the TFE (Re: IIgs and OS X filesharing solutions)
Lee Cremeans wrote:
Rob Steinmetz wrote:
Marinetti is a GS only package, It would be way cooler to have a board
for the Apple ][.
Yeah...I would defnitely want to support both 8 and 16-bit systems. The
big sticking point with the 8-bit systems, though, is that there's no
defined interface for using networking resources (that I know of). It
all depends on what you want the card to do; as it stands, the design
would have the same limitation as the LANceGS, namely that Ethernet
support would have to be implemented on a program-by-program basis.
Since you can only use one program at a time I don't really
think of it as much of a limitation. Although access to server
storage and network printers would be nice. The only way I can
can conceive of doing a general interface is to have an
intelligent card which presents those things as local devices.
I mainly see the NIC as being a way to access TCP/IP-based resources,
such as Web servers, FTP and Telnet (all things Contiki can already do),
though any suggestions on other capabilities it could provide (like,
say, implementing EtherTalk for machines that can't do AToIP) are welcome.
Porting Contiki, would be one way to do it.
I'm also wondering how the old Apple II Workstation Card handled
things...I seem to remember it having some intelligence of its own.
IIRC the card had its own 6502 processor. I think the main
processor would get too bogged down for really fancy stuff.
-lee