Nameserver trouble and VIC-20 cart update

From: Marko Mäkelä (msmakela_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 2001-02-20 13:35:06

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Nick Coplin wrote:

> @#$!ing Lycos has been dooing this lately.... I have to use an .COM
> email as cbm-hacker mail fails to be recieved by my .AU address and
> .AU can't send mail reliably to .FI

It could work now.  The hut.fi nameservers had a maximum hop count of 30,
which is too small to reach all of the Internet these days.  Someone was
complaining for a Taiwanese address, and the limit was extended to 64.
I don't remember your .au domain address, so I can't check it now.

> I'm sure an 8-bit system wouldn't have these problems :)

An 8-bit system that implements TCP/IP could omit the gateway stuff
altogether, so that the system could only be accessed from the same
network segment.  Does anyone know how much this would reduce complexity?

BTW, the Vic-20 cartridge project is going on.  Last weekend I wrote the
VIC-20 part: a menu system integrated with the PuCrunch decompressor.  It
can launch cartridges and BASIC programs at $401, $1001 or $1201.  I'll
try to finish the PC part by this weekend.  The hardware is under
construction, but it'll probably take some weeks.  We'll use SMD and
programmable logic (from Lattice) in the prototype.

	Marko

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