🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BvDMDL.MsK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schwartz@feh.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight A. Schwartz) writes...
#In article <28SEP199222223884@nereid.sunquest.com> spg@nereid.sunquest.com (Steve Gibbons) writes:
#>TCP/IPwise, I know of nothing for the 'Bow.  (Anyone up to the "excercise" of
#>porting KA9Q? :-)
#	Would anyone care to comment on the difficulties associated with this
#"job?"  
#	I've heard that programming the serial port of the Rainbow is different 
#from programming the serial port on the IBM PC.

Bingo!

#Is this the main part of  KA9Q which would have to be changed?  Would 
#comparing the Kermit source code for the Rainbow and the PC be of any use in 
#sorting out this particular port?

This seems like it would be a logical place to start (assuming that all you
wanted was a SLIP/PPP connection.)

#p.s.  On the subject of ethernet stuff, just for kicks, I loaded the TSR 
#packet driver wd8003e.com (for the IBM PC using a Western Digital ethernet 
#card) onto my Rainbow and executed it.  It came back with a message about
#how there probably wasn't an ethernet card at the i/o port I specified,  :)
#but it did appear to exit in an otherwise graceful manner.

That seems reasonable, considering what the TSR is probably looking for...

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Steve (SPG6) spg@sunquest.com