6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
2 a.m.
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
It's surprisingly unobtrusive. You can even telnet into the CoCo by
accessing the server.
Check it out at:
https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
For even more fun, you can use DriveWire from an FPGA CoCo. This runs a
synthesized, 25Mhz. 6809 on an Altera DE1 board. It will cheerfully
communicate at 430Kbps with a DW server.
Steve
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Actually, it
does use the bit-banger serial port and it does communicate
at 115.2kps quite reliably. The author of the drivewire server tells me
That's impressive. PResumably the protocol is designed so that hte CoCO
knows when characters will be sent to it (for example it requests a
packet from the host, and cna then wait for a knwon number of charcters).
Even so, it must tie up the CPU when receivign data from the host. That's
going to be rather unpleasant on a multiuser machine.