...snip...
http://www.splorp.com/newton/stowaway/protocol/
>Now, if someone would like to write a driver that
>translates the Stowaway protocol to Newton keyboard
>protocol, we'd be that much closer to cooking with gas.
What does it take to 1) write a driver (NewtScript, C++, assembler, ?), and
2) patch it into the NewtOS. IIRC, MacOS used to use some sort of dispatch
tables on interrupts kind of a thingy--I don't know what programming model
the Newton follows.
My other thought was to perhaps do the translation in HW through stamp or
PIC programming. Program a lookup table to do the translation on the fly
into the PIC: it comes in on one side of the PIC, does the translation
lookup, and shoves it out the other side to the Newt. 1-2-3. Power comes
from the serial cable(?). Does anyone else on the list play with PICs? My
practical experience with PIC programming is nil.
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