Berkeley TCP socket interface for the Apple IIgs

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."

Comments

One more spawn for our beloved BSD

[sokkelih]

BSD lives forever. And there is nothing that you can do about it. :)

Re:haha

[Anonymous Coward]

Datasage: Seriously, if your reading this, your probably have a better computer than an Apple IIgs.

Faster? Yes.
Better? No.

/s-o

Heh...

[Cyno01]

This is good news, i havn't done anything with my IIgs but play Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiago and Number Munchers.

I don't hack for profit, I hack for FUN

[leereyno]

If someone were proposing that this continue to be developed as part of a commerical enterprise I'd tell them to take the needle out of their arm.

The point of projects like this one is to have fun and learn skills that can be used for endeavors that have a more practical use.

What better way to learn the ins and outs of a TCP/IP stack than to implement one? What better way to learn about an OS than to write one, even if it is on hardware thats somewhere between having a Bar Mitzvah and being old enough to vote?

Lee