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Berkeley TCP socket interface for the Apple IIgs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the dusting-it-off dept.

Scott C. Linnenbringer writes "In case you wanted to do something cool with your fancy little Apple IIgs in the back room, you can use GS/TCP to implement a standard BSD socket interface, allowing you to connect via SLIP, MacIP, and soon PPP on a GNO/ME (GNO Multitasking Environment) UNIX system for the IIgs, now completely abandoned, open-sourced and labeled freeware. GS/TCP also comes with ftp and inetd, built with ORCA/C directly from BSDi sources (hacked, of course,) and a text web browser for GNO/ME can be found at the website."

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  1. Not the only TCP/IP stack for the IIgs by The+Blue+Meanie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Any reason there's no mention of marinetti in this article? Marinetti implements a TCP/IP stack for the IIgs, but works under the IIgs' native interface, GS/OS. There's telnet, ftp, AIM, and email apps already, and even the beginnings of a *graphical* web browser for it. And yes, it's open source as well.

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  2. GNO's Not Orca by jsanfroop · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, what's this.. looks like someone has stumbled across some 7 year old webpages!

    One should note that the GNO/ME distribution does not include GS/TCP. Indeed try Marinetti if you want to play around with TCP/IP on your GS.

    GNO/ME stands for GNO's Not Orca.. named after the Orca shell in which you could use their compiler tools..

    Not really worth checking out, unless it brings back that special nostalgia if you're one of the few who actually used this software 10 years ago.

    I don't think I saw a link to www.gno.org so there it is, go grab your GNO! You can find download links if you like..

  3. Re:How about something like Minix for the IIgs? by usotsuki · · Score: 5, Informative

    Minix is BSD-licensed now.

    It's theoretically possible. The IIgs's CPU is a 65816, a 16-bit variant of the 65C02. It has 24-bit memory addressing (like the 286). The IIgs came standard with 512K RAM, not too shabby for 1986. If GNO can run on top of GS/OS, I don't see why Minix can't be ported to it.

    I suggest someone might want to download KEGS and a 65816 assembler, and maybe the GNO tools and try to bootstrap Minix on it.

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  4. KEGS by metatruk · · Score: 5, Informative

    For all you kids at home with nothing to do and no Apple IIgs I recommend this fine emulator available at:
    http://kegs.sourceforge.net/