Date   : Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:57:13 +0000
From   : public@... (Daniel Beardsmore)
Subject: Commodore 64 BBC BASIC

On 28/01/2013 01:49, J.G.Harston wrote:
> Daniel Beardsmore wrote:
>> (although the original NFS was .... lacking a bit :)
> 
> In what way? I always considered it a very well-written and structured 
> piece of code, with very clean and well-designed APIs. The networking 
> primitives are completely seperated from the filing system, you don't 
> have to have the NFS as the filing system to be able to do network 
> transmission/reception, etc. Are you confusing the NFS with a particular 
> file server at the other end? "The Beeb's display is crap because I've 
> got it plugged into a crap telly"? All a properly-written client of 
> /any/ sort does is purely and simply expose whatever is at the other end 
> of the communication link.

To be 100% certain I would have to re-read all the documentation to confirm
which features and commands were available in which version. It's been a
while since I read through the documentation.

Talking about crap displays -- if you use a VTI video chip on a board that 
had a fried Ferranti video chip (i.e. most of them ;-) and connect the machine 
to a TV, you get a really messed up mode 7, or at least I did. But not on
a monitor. But maybe that was just a specific issue with that computer. But
that's getting way off topic now :)