Date   : Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:40:14 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: RFC: BBC Ethernet API

Jason Flynn G7OCD wrote:
> > the value at X%!20 is a pointer to a block
> > of memory containing the actual address
> 
> Should pointers and lengths be 16bit for a BBC? I note the proposed spacing
is
> currently 4 bytes.
 
No, very definitely 32 bits. Look at *SAVE. How would you specify
screen memory at &FFFE3000, and memory in the language processor at
&00020000 and 128K of data to transfer?
 
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