Date   : Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:31:35 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: [OT] No wonder CompSci graduates are

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Alan Williams wrote:
>> Phil said:
>> Acorn certainly did have a working(ish) IP-over-Econet implementation.
>
> Yep. I seem to remember seeing some emails (which I still have   
> somewhere) from people involved in the implementation - it sounded
> like they were having a hell of a job trying to get it to work reliably.

It worked reliably for us at AFE in Hong Kong.

When I worked at AFE in Hong Kong I ran a mixed network of BBCs,
Archimedeseses, A5000s, RiscIXs and PCs all connected with a mix
of Econet and Ethernet to several Level4FSs and a UNIX NFS server
running in RiscIX. All the PCs could access the NFS server and
could telnet into UNIX. All the RISC OS machines could access the
NFS server, the Level4 servers and could telnet into UNIX. All the
BBCs and Masters could access the Level4 servers and could telnet
into UNIX.

See http://mdfs.net/User/JGH/Docs/AFE/Network

I was really miffed when Micro User visted AFE to do a special
feature two months after I had left :(

https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.acorn.networking/browse_thread/thread/5eb8463ec7a7cdb6/55058a54e026a259?hl=en&lnk=gst#55058a54e026a259

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