Date   : Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:50:56 GMT
From   : hick@... (gARetH baBB)
Subject: Re: Econet, etc.

In message <28.199903071158.LAA10811@...>,
          tom@... (Tom Lees) wrote:

> Out of interest, was there ever a network interface for the Electron?
> (presumably it would just be an expansion-port device with Econet
> suitably displaced into FRED, and the ROMs suitably modified to cope).

This never happened, but was rumoured to be designed by Acron - the mythical
Plus 2. &FC28-&FC2F was reserved for ECONET.

> Not having actually read the Econet AUG, I don't know if it gives the
> protocols, but if it does, I could emulate these on the input into my

The AUG is incomplete, The Econet System User Guide and RISC OS 3 section
2-693 have much more complete descriptions.

> (*) Actually, it now works in all situations EXCEPT when I try to use it
> with the Master MOS+ 3.50. Any ideas why? HiBASIC, etc. seem to work fine,

MOS+ supports relocation for "uploaded" languages - could be something to do
with that.