It sounds interesting. Let us know what you find. MacTCP is loaded at boot. Here's a link to the developer notes and SDK:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos8/Legacy/MacTCP/ mactcp.html
Jack On Mar 6, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Dave Huseby wrote:
So it seems that people have successfully used a serial link to connect old Macs to Linux boxes and the internet. The second part of my first post wasn't answered though. Does anybody have any documentation on how resident drivers like MacTCP hook into MacOS. Do you start MacTCP like any other application or does the OS launch it on boot? What API does MacTCP provide to apps that want to use TCP/IP? What API does MacOS provide for acessing the serial ports?
I'm curious because I'm a professional programmer with experience with embedded systems. The uIP or lwIP stacks written by Adam Dunkell's could easily be ported to run on even the Mac 128K. The ram requirements for uIP are rediculously small.
Dave
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