LISA

[Ray Arachelian]

pdp11_70 wrote:
> It would be even more need to write a TCP/IP stack for the thing, and some how hook up a scsi asanti ethernet adapter to a real Lisa and put it on the web without using Macworks.  
>
> But as I don't have any of the real equipment... I guess that's just a pipe dream.
>
>   

It is still possible to build a tcp/ip stack for the Lisa, even without 
the source code.  There is a device driver writer's guide out there in 
PDF form that you can use.  Further, if you're serious about doing that, 
you might want to go with PPP as that would be far easier to implement 
and would run without requiring a SCSI card on a real Lisa, as well as 
on the emulaor.

The bigger problem is there's nothing to use the TCP/IP stack once you 
have it. :-)  So you'd have to write your own telnet, httpd, web 
browser, etc, and do so within about a meg or so of memory.  Not exactly 
easy.

I suppose, stealing code from something like Lunix or the ConTiki 
project would be the way to go.