Date   : Thu, 23 Sep 1993 10:46:55 +0100 (BST)
From   : "I Stephenson" <ian@...>
Subject: Re: Beebs and bits

I'm having a bit of a BBC week, so I think I'lkl throw some more stuff in...

>As a matter of interest how are other people getting their software onto the
net?

I'm kinda lucky - I've got a serial line from a bbc (about 18" from my right  
shoulder) straight into shiraz (a NeXT, 12" in front of me), so I can transfer  
stuff around VERY easily. We used to have a lab full of BBC's but that was  
replaced, so the computers were put into store. I asked the techie's nice, and  
they dug me out a system which I keep permanently connected (this is esential  
for developing cross compilers!). If anyone isn't sufficiently connected to get  
transfer stuff, then mail me, and we can sort out some floppies.

>if some of us have anything left to learn - I'm a bit
>lacking on the ins and outs of the tube and second processors
>anyone got a 32016 second prcessor going cheap?
Last I heard "Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler" <csc228@...>
had a Cambridge workstation he wanted to part with (this was about a year ago -  
If he still has it then he should virtually give it to you).

Tube doc's are pretty thin on the ground - largely because Acorn screwed up the  
marketing of the Tube, so that no-one had them  (until recently when pople like  
us started picking them up cheap). Acorn could have released a 68000 based  
system for say 150 pounds, just as the ST/Amiga's were taking off, and they  
would have sold millions. Instead they over priced them, keeping them out of  
the mass apeal, and the rest is history :-(.

Anyone looked seriously at BUILDING a second processor? Can you get the ULA?  
Does anyone have a definative idea of the tube protocol?


>If anyone can get me a copy of the Advanced Basic Rom User Guide then give me
a shout.
Is that the one to go with he Advanced User Guide? I've got that one, but never  
though much of it. There was another that was supposed to be better, but I  
can't remember the exact titles.

On that subject (ie books), does anyone have a spare "Advanced User Guide"? I  
left mine at my parents, and my brother leant it to a friend! I've been trying  
to get it back for ages, but its at least 100 miles away, so is a bit hard  
applying preasure.

Does anyone want a copy of:
Boris Allan: funcitonal forth on the BBC micro?
I've aquired a spare copy, so if anyone wants it, they're welcome to it.

Ian