NeXT [was Re: Radio Shack Model ][ available (Portland Oregon)]

From: Captain Napalm <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Sat Sep 12 21:14:01 1998

It was thus said that the Great Thomas Pfaff once stated:
>
> BTW... about hooking older machines to the net. I've heard that
> someone has crammed UDP, IP and ARP into a tiny PIC microcontroller.
> Does anyone know anything about this? I would kind of like to set
> up my Trs-80 Mod 4 on the net for various reasons.

  I've heard rumors of IP (not TCP/IP, just IP) being written for the C-64
(along with PPP or SLIP I assume). Apparently, the port only had IP and
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol---at the same layer as IP) as
nothing else could fit in 64k. IP isn't that difficult (and uncompressed
SLIP is pretty easy as well). UDP is just a user accessable (under UNIX)
version (more or less) of IP (unreliable datagram protocol, but I think UDP
stands for User Datagram Protocol, as a datagram protocol is unreliable by
definition if I recall correctly).

  -spc (Quick question: how common are ARCNET cards for PCs and Tandy
        6000s? I know there are Linux drivers for ARCNET cards, and I
        have two Tandy 6000s ... )
Received on Sat Sep 12 1998 - 21:14:01 BST