Re: TI-H: TI Modem
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Re: TI-H: TI Modem
Unless you built the TCP/IP stack on the Ethernet hardware card. I suppose
it wouldn't be so hard to use a secondary processor and just burn a ROM for
a simple stack. Then just use the calc as a terminal on that Ethernet
"server".
>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: TI-H: TI Modem
>Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 20:27:45 -0800
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>Design a very simple protocol not based on TCP, or if on TCP, do it very
>efficentally.
>
>
> >Ok, so how could we get it to NOT drop packets?
> >
> >>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
> >>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> >>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> >>Subject: Re: TI-H: TI Modem
> >>Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 09:35:32 -0800
> >>
> >>
> >>The etnernet chip already has a buffer.
> >>
> >>The calculator link port is just not clocked at 10MHz.
> >> >OK, in other words we'd have to add a buffer external to the chip.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> >It wouldn't have to go very fast at all. Just provide telnet
> >>services,
> >> >> >finger, that sort of thing.
> >> >> >How could this be implemented?
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> >>It would work...at 5k a second it might miss some packets.
> >> >>
> >> >>I didn't say it would be slow. I said it would miss packets.
> >> >>
> >> >>if they were 1 4k packet a second, the calc would take ~.80 seconds a
> >> >>packet. There isn't too much of a buffer in ethernet chips.
> >> >>
> >> >
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