Date   : Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:42:25 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: PC/Econet

Chris Johns <chris.johns@...> wrote:
> > Acorn's !Gateway application, part of the Level 4 fileserver software
> > IIRC, runs on modest hardware (A310 up) and bridges Econet/Ethernet.  I
> > don't recall whether it supports TCP/IP though or whether it only allows
> > 8-bit machines on an Econet to access a Level 4 server on Ethernet.
> 
> It only supports TCP. You can use it to connect an archie on an econet
> to an archie (eg. if you have some non-ethernet arcs) but you can't use
> it to connect a beeb to an level 4 server on the ethernet.
 
Yes you can. At least, yes I could. Back in Hong Kong in 1992/3 we had a
network shown in http://www.mdfs.net/User/JGH/Docs/AFE/Network which
served a mixture of BBCs, Masters, Arcs and PCs.
 
Any computer, including BBC/Master, could log on to any file server, even
if that fileserver was only connected to the network with an Ethernet
interface. All RISC OS computers and all PCs could mount the Unix server's
file system. All computers could telnet into the Unix service, including
the BBCs and Masters!
 
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