RE: Ethernet

From: Bo Zimmerman (bo_zimmerman_at_webiqinc.com)
Date: 2000-07-20 16:09:45

Forgive my ignorance, but can't incoming data be cached until the computer
can process it?

- Bo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cbm-hackers@dot.tcm.hut.fi
> [mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@dot.tcm.hut.fi]On Behalf Of Richard Atkinson
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 8:44 AM
> To: cbm-hackers@dot.tcm.hut.fi
> Subject: Ethernet
>
>
> Anyone following comp.sys.cbm will have seen a recent thread on Commodore
> networking. Some jumped up little American sysadmin has started making a
> lot of noise about the idea of Ethernet on a CBM machine, as well as being
> rather rude about certain peoples' software. Anyway, hysterics aside, what
> do cbm-hackers think about the viability of native Ethernet on the C64?
> I've often thought of an NE2000 - C64 adapter much like my Soundblaster
> adapter design, but I've always been put off by the sheer quantity of
> protocol required by TCP/IP and the fact that a machine running at 1MHz is
> really going to have a hard time keeping up with Ethernet data coming in
> at 10Mbit/s.
>
> What do other people think of this? The only way I can possibly see it
> working is by running the NE2000 with an REU, so you can use the DMA
> controller to handle the NE2000's DMA requests (with a little bit of
> software to set up the transactions). Even then you still have the
> possibility of Ethernet data coming in far quicker than the C64 can
> process it.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Richard
>
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