Date   : Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:28:54 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Econet <> Ethernet

"Mark Usher" wrote:
> At approximately 19:30 BST - a fine summer evening as it turned out, Phil
> Blundell had an Alexander Graham Bell moment when he passed a packet from an
 
You mean he nicked Elisha Gray's patent application and rewrote it
with his own name at the top? ;)
 
> Acorn 5000 on Ethernet to an MDFS on Econet via the "bridge" unit he had
> designed, and receiving a reply from the MDFS was able to log on
 
Well done!
 
> About an hour later this was repeated by Mark Usher who has been working
> with Phil on the unit's firmware, logging on to a Filesnore E01S from a RISC
> PC on Ethernet proving that it was indeed no fluke. Attempts from BeebEm
 
Double well done!
 
Maybe after 16 years I should get two SerialNet clients connected
and run a gateway on one and successfully do a real *I AM logon
via a serial link?
 
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