Date   : Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:19:17 -0700 (PDT)
From   : Angus Duggan <angus@...>
Subject: Re: Re BBC serial filing system

Carsten Langkvist Brasholt writes:
>Hi all,
>
>If we're going to write a filing system, wouldn't a parallel one be
>better (using the userport on the beeb and the printerport on the PC)?
>This way the Linux box could actually work as a "real" fileserver for
>the beeb - instead of just a slow transfer-link.
>
>I realize that this would include making a new kind of cable, but I
>think the benefits would outweigh this!

Most of the code and the wire protocol for the BBC can be the same, so
there's no reason not to make the BBC end do both parallel and serial. I've
started on trimming down a framework from my HDFS source code. I'll make it
available when I've eventually done it; snapshots may be available on
request.

a.