On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:52:35PM -0200, Adriano Camargo Rodrigues da Cunha wrote: > > I didn't say that an ethernet card shouldn't work with MSXDOS. > I said that an ethernet card who support only ONE socket is bad, EVEN > under MSXDOS. > Could the card handle multiple sockets and have a nice API interface to setup/disconnect and read/write to each of them? using a z80 register as limit this would give us the possibility of 255 sockets (one value reserved to say that socket could not be made :-)
> > - its not important if the ethernet card is more powerful than the msx, the > > function counts > > If the ethernet card is more powerful than the MSX, so lets use this > power, and let our Z80 breath! :) > > > - i want an ethernet interface to use the home network like i use it now: > > file sharing. Maybe internet apps such as browser or irc, but file sharing > > is highest. File sharing from.to MSX-DOS I mean :) > > MSXDOS must have, at least, a FTP daemon. or an NFS daemon. a TFTP is probably the way to go, firewalling higher up would be advisable (on your Linux machine fi.) A SMB deamon seems not such a good idea :-) David -- "Never assume malice when results can be explained through incompetence"? -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- In the case of M$, the distinction can be a difficult one to make -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
