Date   : Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:10:05 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Beeb Networking

J.G.Harston wrote:
> The pre-existing Tube protocol exposes a filing system interface. You
> then just implement a system that responds to filing system requests
> and access data on a file server.
...
> What you want to implement is up to you. I've implemented the Tube
> protocol over a single byte channel (eg a serial port) in Z80, I
> can quickly translate it to 6502.

Done: <http://mdfs.net/tube/Serial>. I'll upload updated Host code later.

A little bit more work to make it a sideways ROM and HostFS will
give you a filing system connected to a remote system. Passing
the non-filing calls to HostFS would effectively turn a BBC into
*client* CoProcessor!

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J.G.Harston - jgh@...