Date   : Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:37:35 +0000
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Beeb Networking - and another thing

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:30 +0000, James Woodcock wrote:
> I can't imagine it would be much fun to use it over the internet with a
BBC B, things like *EXEC read one byte at a time.  A Master may be OK, though.

The round trip time over a local Econet is already sufficiently slow to
make direct use of OSBGET a fairly bad idea.  Obviously adding in an
Internet leg is going to make it slower but I don't think you'd be
talking about orders of magnitude.

In any case, there are buffered OSBGET/OSBPUT implementations available
for the Beeb: you can either fit an ENFS ROM or run *PUTGET, so it
probably wouldn't be a show-stopping issue in any case.

p.