From: Tyler Smith (spam_at_fenestrated.net)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 08:11:24 PDT
>Just curious: has anyone ever used one of these things with a Newton?
>
>Here's an example:
>
>http://www.stayonline.com/serial_to_ethernet/3311.asp
It's my guess that such a device wouldn't work with a Newt due to the
fact that the majority of the magic that makes them work is in the
driver, not the device itself. Furthermore, IIRC, they took up quite
a bit of your CPU horsepower when transcieving (is that a word?)
data, due to the previous fact.
If somebody wanted to write up a driver bigger and ulgier than the
802.11 driver, I bet it COULD work, but I am not the man to do it,
nor are most of us. :-)
-Tyler
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