29 Apr
1997
29 Apr
'97
5:13 p.m.
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Jim wrote:
My idea is this: build an ethernet board for the
apple2 series with the
following parameters: 1. it looks to the system exactly like a localtalk
board, only faster. 2. it has enough brains to analyze outgoing frames to
see if, in fact, what is being sent is ip encapsulated in appletalk. If so,
de-encapsulate it and transmit it as straight IP. - this is a software issue,
really, but it needs to happen in the firmware of the ethernet board, so...
3. It has enough brains to analyze incoming frames and determine if in
fact the frame is an IP frame. If so, encapsulate it in appletalk and
feed it to the system.
4. It has a way of turning all this brainpower off and being driven with a
normal ethernet driver running on the host system.
5. It can do any translation between appletalk and ethertalk so the machine
can talk to it's Macintosh kin.
This would be a cool idea. And actually, there is this dude who posts on
the usenet named Andre Fachat who wrote a simple TCP/IP implementation
for the 6502. Perhaps you could talk to him about fleshing it out and
perhaps designing a hardware card to host it? Look in
comp.apple.programmer to find him.
Sam
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