Date   : Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:06:51 GMT
From   : "Mik Davis" <davism@...>
Subject: Re: Real Time Clock (and other stuff)?

 >      Hi y'all!
 >          There hasn't been much traffic on here recently, but there  
 >      are a few bits that I thought were worth throwing about.
 >          
 >          Does anyone have a design for an Acorn compatable real time  
 >      clock? I remember discussing this with Mathew last summer. Could we  
 >      put together a production run? (How about it Richard?).
 >      (I'm gona get my hard disc REAL SOON. honest!)

  Would the one used by the old level 3 econet server provide a starting point?
It would have to be compatible (at least command-wise) with the BBC master one.
 >          
 >          Is anyone interested in using their BBC as a graphics  
 >      terminal? I've been developing an objective C based graphics library  
 >      recently. It currently runs under X, but I've been keeping in mind  
 >      that it should be easily addapted to drive BBC VDU codes?

  How about a system to allow a BBC to run as a terminal to an archimedes
such that the arch. acted as a "second processor" kind of arrangement
(probably over the serial port). The arrangement would have to be a piece
of software running both ends such that any i/o requirements were processed
by the beeb but the number crunching bits were done by the arch....

 >          
 >          Has anyone got any good mouse based software? I'd realy love  
 >      to get hold of something like AMX framemaker. Also does anyone have a  
 >      commercial (ie good quality) C compiler?
 >          
 >          Finaly remember that just 'cause the BBC is old, it doesn't  
 >      mean that it can't do everything it could when you bought it. I  
 >      recently wrote a package to analyse some Scanning Electron Microscope  
 >      data (for my girlfriend - it would have taken her MONTHS). The BBC  
 >      did the job just as quick as anything else could have.

  Mik (currently trying to write a decent version of tetris for the beeb)


        Mik Davis at Aston University. E-Mail davism@...
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