12 Sep
1998
12 Sep
'98
5:14 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Thomas Pfaff once stated:
BTW... about hooking older machines to the net. I've heard that
someone has crammed UDP, IP and ARP into a tiny PIC microcontroller.
Does anyone know anything about this? I would kind of like to set
up my Trs-80 Mod 4 on the net for various reasons.
I've heard rumors of IP (not TCP/IP, just IP) being written for the C-64
(along with PPP or SLIP I assume). Apparently, the port only had IP and
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol---at the same layer as IP) as
nothing else could fit in 64k. IP isn't that difficult (and uncompressed
SLIP is pretty easy as well). UDP is just a user accessable (under UNIX)
version (more or less) of IP (unreliable datagram protocol, but I think UDP
stands for User Datagram Protocol, as a datagram protocol is unreliable by
definition if I recall correctly).
-spc (Quick question: how common are ARCNET cards for PCs and Tandy
6000s? I know there are Linux drivers for ARCNET cards, and I
have two Tandy 6000s ... )