Date   : Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:54:13 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Beeb Networking - Was: No wonder CompSci graduates

On 15/11/2010 14:10, samwise wrote:

> be quite happy to help out and see if we could host some sort of
> permanent fileserver online.  Perhaps so that any internet-connected
> emulator or local econet could immediately access all the beeb
> programs we have online.

Now that's an interesting concept!


> other emulator communities, we could get new users to just install an
> emulator and have it automatically boot and display a menu system full
> of all the hosted software available whenever their emulator/machine
> is online.

I can envisage this being not unlike the Ubuntu package manager, but 
thinking practically:

   1. User interface. Too many programs could be troublesome to navigate,
      especially if your favourite program is in the middle of a long
      list!

   2. Where would user data (documents, settings, user scores, etc) be
      written?


But, yes, it is an interesting idea.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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