Date   : Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:03:04 +0000
From   : Phil Blundell <pb@...>
Subject: Re: BEEB Stuff 

>I see what you mean about SLIP being simple - assuming I've got the
>right RFC: 1055??? It's little more than transmitting the packet over
>the serial line, then terminating with an end character (that
>character being replaced by a 2-byte sequence if it occurs within the
>data). 

That's right, yeah.

For a bit more speed you could also consider using PLIP over the user and
printer ports.  Again, the protocol is pretty simple.

p.