That sounds nice, but there's no way I can afford (or even rationalize)
getting a $200+ development board. The on-board ethernet is a nice thing,
however. I'll see what I can get through Purdue perhaps...
-- Pat
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Tom Uban wrote:
> You could use a Rabbit board: http://www.rabbitsemiconductor.com/
>
> --tom
>
> At 09:30 AM 5/30/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 30 May 2002, Glen Goodwin wrote:
> >
> >> > From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
> >>
> >> > What I'm looking to do is provide a (small) SLIP or PPP based TCP/IP
> >> stack
> >> > for a machine that will stay resident and can be used by CP/M 2.2 [or
> >> > perhaps MP/M II] user programs.
> >>
> >> Pat --
> >>
> >> I would be extremely interested to learn of your progress in this area.
> >> Please keep us posted, or contact me off-list.
> >
> >I'm starting to have some second thoughts about how I'm going to do this.
> >I'm considering an external 'black box' that will connect to a PPP server
> >on one end and have a RS-232 connection on the other that will provide
> >something like a serialized verion of BSD's sockets. I'm also thinking
> >about implementing a raw tcp port that would connect to an extra RS-232
> >port [optionally password protected] that could be used to attach to the
> >system's console, and replicate it on the other end of the network.
> >
> >Right now I'm looking at either a Z80 with 32k of ram, 16k of flash, a CTC
> >and one or two DUARTS, or a uC that'll provide as much of that in hardware
> >as possible. PICs are nice, but generally seem to have too little memory
> >for TX/RX buffers, and Basic stamps are too slow. (and who wants to
> >program in BASIC anyways?)
> >
> >Any suggestions on a good uC to use?
> >
> >-- Pat
> >
> >
> >
>
Received on Thu May 30 2002 - 09:55:18 BST