Date   : Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:35:06 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Beeb Networking - and another thing

On 16/11/2010 01:37, Alan Williams wrote:

> It may then be possible to get the BEEB to read from remotely stored
> disk images.  This would need some hacking of the DFS to redirect the
> sector read requests, in much the same way as the goMMC does.

<smile> You know, I'd burn an EPROM and run a hacked DNFS just to 
attempt *Load a file from the other side of the world purely for the 
geek-pleasing aspect of it. ;-)

Sometimes, you know, you just don't *need* a reason...


> barking mad that might be.  I suspect that the alternative, AUND would
> be found to support only the FS functions required by Archimedes NetFS
> and not by BBC NFS.

??? I thought the Archimeses version was a superset. Or do you mean 
stuff to do with load/exec addresses?



Best wishes,

Rick.

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