Date   : Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:25:13 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: maximum econet packet size

Does anybody know the maximum packet size that a Beeb will send or
receive on Econet?  It seems to be 8k for normal transmissions under
RISC OS but I'm not sure whether the same applies for immediates and on
other machines.

Given that the Acorn bridge only has 8k of buffer RAM in total, I'm
assuming that the expected maximum packet size was somewhat less than
that at the time the bridge was designed.  But it'd be useful to know
for sure what the largest packet is that's likely to be encountered on a
Beeb network.

thanks

p.