[A86] Re: TCP/IP stack for the ti-86...
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[A86] Re: TCP/IP stack for the ti-86...
Aren't you the badass that made that ti-86 robot back in the day ?
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James Rubingh
http://www.coaxme.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David West" <bdaddy_mit@hotmail.com>
To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: [A86] TCP/IP stack for the ti-86...
>
> All,
>
> I'm working on a TCP/IP stack for the TI-86. I thought I would throw
> this out to the mailing list to see what kind of interest or feedback I
> could get for such a project. I've done a survey of several other 8-bit
> TCP/IP stacks including one for the z88 called ZCast. I feel this project
> is very much doable for the ti-86 as well. I plan to impliment the TCP/IP
> protocols and have it connect to an ISP over PPP. Also, I will initially
> create a tv100 telnet program to make use of the stack. This will be my
> senior project at school, so rest assured, by the end of this simester it
> will be done.
>
> These are a few of the concerns I currently have about the project:
>
> (1) Limited capabilities of the TI-OS: Currently assembly programs are
> limited to around 8Kbytes in size for the TI-86. Also the TI-OS in
general
> does not appear to be very conducive to such a project. I'm currently
> planning to come with a quick and dirty way to get around this for the
first
> version, but in the long run, it would be nice to have a more general
> solution. (perhaps an alternative OS...)
>
> (2) Programming Language: I want to stay away from Assembly because it
> would tie the program to a particular object code layout, which might not
be
> easily changed in the future. I've surveyed a few C compilers for the
z80,
> but I'm not currently sure which one to use.
>
> (3) Modularity: I would like to write the components of this system in a
> modular way, but am currently unsure how to accomplish this on the ti-86.
> For now, I may just write the telnet/TCP/IP/PPP all in one big monolithic
> proram. But I at least would like to keep as much modularity as possible
in
> the source code so that in the feature the various sub-systems could be
> pulled apart.
>
> The potential uses for such a system could be far reaching. Once a
> modular TCP/IP stack is created, then various internet programs from
> ICQ/AIM, email clients, ftp clients, simple web browsers, to even http
> servers could be written for the calc.
>
> Later,
>
> David E. West
>
> p.s. Imagine this sort of software coupled with a wireless TI-graphlink.
> Wireless internet access from a TI-86!
>
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