TCP/IP on eightbitters

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue Nov 21 21:01:10 2000

Jim Strickland skrev:

>> 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.

Are you referring to the board which was (supposedly) produced just w hile
ago, or is this some age-old project?

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