Date   : Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:21:41 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: [OT] No wonder CompSci graduates are unemployed

On 10 November 2010 13:59, samwise <samwise@...> wrote:
> On 10 November 2010 12:17, Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:
>> But... wait... Twitter client! ;-)
>
> Interesting. ?At this past weekend's R3PLAY show, I was talking to
> Winston (of World of Spectrum / Stairway To Hell) who's built an
> ethernet and TCP/IP stack for the Spectrum. ?He's been demoing it
> recently at various shows - and even got pictured on The Register
> round-up of the Vintage Computer Festival - by showing a Spectrum
> twittering away, live.
>
> He's talked in the past about porting his stack to the beeb, but I
> think he needed some help with the beeb 6502 code:
>

Well there is already the Beeb IP-over-econet code and ROMs.  I think
it would need !Gateway running on a machine with econet & ethernet in
order for it to get off the LAN though.   (I keep meaning to add
support to BeebEm to notice econet packets that contain IP and break
it out directly..)

Sprow's ethernet module for the Master also supports IP, so I presume
he's got a working stack too.

Did anybody ever port Contiki to the Beeb - if it runs on a C64 it
should be a doddle?  A quick look at the website shows they even have
a IPv6 stack now!

Rob