Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

1.70 Mhz 8-Bit Ataris Get 10 Mbit Ethernet

Posted by simoniker on from the next-up-firewire dept.

point writes "Thanks to Chris Martin, 8-bit Atari power users can now enjoy 10 Mbit Ethernet, something that the Commodore 64 crowd have been able to do for over a year now... Time to pick up that age-old flamewar? An Ethernet-enabled Atari port of the Contiki operating system has already been completed, and brings the Atari users telnet, e-mail, a web server and a web browser. Pictures and schematics for the Ethernet card, as well as screenshots of the system in action on an Atari 800 are available from the project's webpage."

6 of 208 comments (clear)

  1. BEWARE OF GOATSE LINK!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And fucking liars!

  2. oh please tell me why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Couldnt they be working on things that are USEFULL to the world while still having fun

  3. F4!|_0X0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    'tis why thou shall be ein Failure, even though 'tis sponsort by Atari.

  4. Good God! by Unsichtbarer_Mensch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now what's the use of that?Could the dark brain matter which was wasted on this (cough cough ) technolical feat have been not used for some other purpose? Those guys will end up adding Ethernet interface to IBM 360s and Univacs!!!

    --
    Du kan glomma dina ensama stunder, du kan lita paa teknikens under - Wilmer X
  5. Misleading data rate? by Unominous+Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ok, ten points up for grabs for the first person that explains how a CPU can receive data using a serial protocol at a rate faster than its clock. If it doesn't really receive 10Mbps of data, then it's not really 10Mbps, is it?

    --
    "Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
  6. Oh, the humanity.. by adeyadey · · Score: -1, Troll

    People are starving in the world, and they do this..

    --
    "You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"