Date   : Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:15:36 +0000
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: Econet<>Ethernet, more distracting thoughts.

At 17:11 12/03/2006, Phil Blundell wrote:


>Acorn did some stuff with Econet-over-IP (actually Econet-over-UDP) at
>one point, and in fact there is, or at least was, an approximate
>implementation of those protocols in the Linux kernel.  So that'd be a
>fairly good option if you wanted to be able to, say, mount an Econet
>server from a Linux client or vice versa.

The econet implementation in BeebEm which I wrote, and Mike Wyatt 
actually got working, uses Econet-over-UDP to communicate - you can 
run emulators on different PCs on a LAN and they will talk.  At 
present I don't have anything other than B's or Masters so have never 
seen "real" econet-over-ethernet, but my intent was to make it 
inter-operable, so an emulated Beeb would be able to communicate with 
a real one, or at least a later Acorn machine with ethernet on it..

I'm picking up an A5000 later in the week; fingers crossed it'll have 
a network interface of some form in it...

Rob