Date   : Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:15:50 -0000
From   : Daniel Luton <DLuton@...>
Subject: Re: BEEB Stuff

Just out of interest, why would anyone want to browse the web on a BBC
Micro?

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Fardell [mailto:tim.fardell@...]
Sent: 27 November 2001 09:57
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re: BEEB Stuff


Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> Yes, the word/text processor of your choice.  I use View.
> 
> You don't need a TCP/IP stack to use an email client.  Just some form of
> a) fetching incoming mail and b) sending outgoing mail.

Well, yes, OK you could just use the Beeb as a terminal, but you
wouldn't really be using the Beeb to send (or receive) the mail. What
I had in my mind was the Beeb talking SMTP and POP3 over TCP/IP (all
going over some kind of point-to-point serial protocol on the RS423
port) to the mail server. I was just wondering if it had been done,
really. That would also open the door to browsing the Web on the beeb. 

Tim. 


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