TCP/IP on eightbitters

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Tue Nov 21 15:08:43 2000

> I've heard some talk about a TCP/IP project for the Spectrum, as well.
> Then there is the Ethernet card for the Apple II. Which protocols does it
> support?

Ah the infamous apple 2 ethernet board.

The thing was designed, ethertalk support was written into the Apple2GS kernel,
and then the board was dropped before production and all references to it torn
out of GSOS. The apple2GS world *still* whines about this, even though they
have a tcpip stack of dubious quality that can supposedly do PPP (although
I've never seen it actually work). The guy who developed it is a real
jerk too, and has gained a following of other jerks. Between this and the
fact that my father gave up on his GS and bought an iMac, you have the reasons
I gave up on the apple2 community.



-- 
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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