ethernet and apple2GS

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Wed Apr 30 00:13:13 1997

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Jim wrote:

> My idea is this: build an ethernet board for the apple2 series with the
> following parameters: 1. it looks to the system exactly like a localtalk
> board, only faster. 2. it has enough brains to analyze outgoing frames to
> see if, in fact, what is being sent is ip encapsulated in appletalk. If so,
> de-encapsulate it and transmit it as straight IP. - this is a software issue,
> really, but it needs to happen in the firmware of the ethernet board, so...
> 3. It has enough brains to analyze incoming frames and determine if in
> fact the frame is an IP frame. If so, encapsulate it in appletalk and
> feed it to the system.
> 4. It has a way of turning all this brainpower off and being driven with a
> normal ethernet driver running on the host system.
> 5. It can do any translation between appletalk and ethertalk so the machine
> can talk to it's Macintosh kin.

This would be a cool idea. And actually, there is this dude who posts on
the usenet named Andre Fachat who wrote a simple TCP/IP implementation
for the 6502. Perhaps you could talk to him about fleshing it out and
perhaps designing a hardware card to host it? Look in
comp.apple.programmer to find him.

Sam
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