Re: Porting the TFE (Re: IIgs and OS X filesharing solutions)

[Lee Cremeans <lee@lcremeans.homeip.net>]

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.

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.

I'm also wondering how the old Apple II Workstation Card handled 
things...I seem to remember it having some intelligence of its own.

-lee