29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
8:38 p.m.
pdp11_70 wrote:
It would be even more need to write a TCP/IP stack for
the thing, and some how hook up a scsi asanti ethernet adapter to a real Lisa and put it
on the web without using Macworks.
But as I don't have any of the real equipment... I guess that's just a pipe
dream.
It is still possible to build a tcp/ip stack for the Lisa, even without
the source code. There is a device driver writer's guide out there in
PDF form that you can use. Further, if you're serious about doing that,
you might want to go with PPP as that would be far easier to implement
and would run without requiring a SCSI card on a real Lisa, as well as
on the emulaor.
The bigger problem is there's nothing to use the TCP/IP stack once you
have it. :-) So you'd have to write your own telnet, httpd, web
browser, etc, and do so within about a meg or so of memory. Not exactly
easy.
I suppose, stealing code from something like Lunix or the ConTiki
project would be the way to go.