Date   : Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:07:18 +0000
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Beeb Networking - Was: No wonder CompSci graduates

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 13:10 +0000, samwise wrote:
> If it ever gets to the point where it's possible to setup a virtual
> econet over the internet, with a mix of real beebs and emulators, I'd
> be quite happy to help out and see if we could host some sort of
> permanent fileserver online.

Yeah, that was exactly the kind of thing we were hoping to do.

Since all my Beeb bits are still in storage, maybe I should focus my
energies on getting it to work under emulation first.  I did sketch out
a wire protocol at some point which is presumably in my email archives
somewhere.  I think it probably only needs a couple of hours of
keyboard-pounding to add the right bits to BeebEm and implement a
virtual switch daemon, and maybe this would provide a bit of extra
motivation to finish the work on the real hardware as well.

p.