Re: TFE for Apple

["Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

"Rob" <rsteinmetz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> With the announcement of the Contiki Desktop, I went exploring Adam
> Dunkels web site and found a link to a C-64 hardware project, TFE ( the
> final ethernet card) http://www.dunkels.com/adam/tfe/ It is an insanely
> simple hardware design for an ethernet card, based upon an embedded
> ethernet controller.
>
> It seems it might be easy to adapt to the APPLE ][ providing an
> inexpensive ethernet adapter for 8 bit apples. Of course, someone would
> have to create the software.
>
> --
> Rob
>
> "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity"
>

There are several all in one ethernet designs out there that could be made
to work with the apple II. They are for example

Embedded Ethernet board - http://www.embeddedethernet.com/ - $70.00 - The
TFE is based on this board
Packet Whacker - http://www.edtp.com/packetwhacker.htm - $35 - cheapest?
IP�8930 Developers Kit  - http://www.ipsil.com/products/d8930.htm-  dev kit
is $199 not sure how much the chip is seperate
iChip - http://www.connectone.com/html/ichip.htm - eval boards not sure
about single chips

Some chips are adding the tcpip stack right on  the chip or as an addon to
the ethernet controller

IIM7010 - http://www.wiznet.co.kr/e_i2chip/p_module_IIM7010.htm - I like
this chip
http://www.ipsil.com/products/d8932.htm
http://www.connectone.com/html/ichip.htm

Using the onboard IP stack could be usefull. Perhaps a thin translation
layer from the Marinetti API to the onboard IPstack could be written so that
apps that currently are programmed to it would not have to change.

A good web site on embedded ethernet  is
http://www.beyondlogic.org/etherip/ip.htm... Actually the entire web site is
worth a look - http://www.beyondlogic.org


Glenn