Date   : Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:46:04 +0100
From   : tom@... (Tom Kranz)
Subject: modern BBC remake

On 18 Jul 2007, at 11:41, Darren Grant wrote:

> There are a lot of people who use non-pc hardware and tying to a PC  
> would be
> really backward looking. Having a network interface would mean you  
> could use
> it with Sun boxes or Sgi's for example.

<delurk>
Which also all have PCI, or USB, or Firewire, or or or or ...... ;-)

Offloading anything to another machine is the real problem, because  
then you're relying on having portable, compilable code that can be  
used across any front-end host.

Sprow's MiniBeeb is pretty awesome and seems to do most of what's  
needed. If that could be expanded in some way to have all the extra  
interfaces that made the Beeb such a roaring success, then I'd buy a  
load. In kit form, too ;-)

Cheers,
TOM

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