Date   : Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:57:27 +0200
From   : John Kortink <kortink@...>
Subject: Re: Announcing 65Link 2.10

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:40:08 +0100, Fragula wrote:

>John Kortink wrote:
>> Version 2.10 of 65Link is now available.
>> 
>> It can now also make use of a PC running (x86) Linux as a
>> host 
>
>Ooooooh!  I don't suppost this has a serial ports/null modem mode does it?

Nope

>My Linux box and beebs are currently far apart, too far for serial but I
>happen to have cat.5 flooded through the house, and serial<>cat5
>adaptors both ways.
>
>Not that I think you should do a special version for me, but I wonder
>how many others have similar dilemmas?

I vaguely remember some request in that direction but
most people seem to make do with the parallel path laid
out for them ...

>Strikes me that, because its slower, a serial port version might be
>less usfull, but usefull to more people. BICBW.

I don't know, it's just a different cable basically.
And still a 'custom' one since there's a BBC at one
end ... It seems somewhat pointless, doing a serial
version, except for the fact that the cable could
definitely be longer for a serial connection. But
going from 30 to something like 2 KB/sec would be
painful, almost physically so ...


John Kortink

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