Date   : Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:32:42 +0100 (BST)
From   : "F. Haroon" <haroonnet2002@...>
Subject: Re: PC/Econet

> Well I read somewhere that it was due to the PCs of the day not being
> quick enough, so Acorn put a 6502 on to the board to drive the Econet
> side of things, with a bit of buffer memory between the 6502 and the
> PC's CPU. Just wish I could remember where I saw that now!

> If I get chance I'll get the manual for the ISA board out of the loft
> later and see if Acorn themselves give a reason.

I think you might have to contact RISC OS for this or some other Acorn
clone company  - Acorn themselves don't exist now!!  A PC Econet
interface would be pretty cool, save time encoding into the emulators
Econet.  Just need to tell it to look out for the LAN port.

Anyway, as for BBC's, with all the extra memory now available for the
BBC, I would have thought it would be better for someone to try (if not
done already) to write a modern Ethernet interface much like that of
the ARM-based machine (which I believe would still be
command-compatible with the 8-bit Econet).  The server can then be any
machine subject to driver and mapper installed, we then got a BBC
Ethernet system to build on.  Unless someone knows any better regarding
drivers...

If I could just spring off-topic for a sec  - has anyone tried to
source part no. 325429 in Farnell?  That would be the LCD monitor that
would fit into the RGB BBC port.  Sprow, you know anything about where
it's gone, 'cos your Web site still talks about this.

Fiaz.


       
       
               
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