Date   : Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:56:25 +0000
From   : public@... (Daniel Beardsmore)
Subject: NFS functionaility,Was: Commodore 64 BBC BASIC

I must confess that I didn't study it in depth. Obviously I need to re-read
the manuals :) I did think that all the commands were built into the ROM.

To be fair to Acorn, just the concept of on-board networking on a computer
in 1981 was exceptionally forward-thinking considering that onboard NICs
didn't become common until the late 90s! Regardless of the need to wait for
the Level 2 fileserver.

On 28/01/2013 17:26, J.G.Harston wrote:
> Daniel Beardsmore wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> There are almost *no* commands implemented by NFS, as a client, almost 
> *all* commands are implemented by the server. NFS implements *ROFF and 
> *NET, does some pre-checking to *I AM, and translates *EX to a *CAT 
> subfunction. Absolutely everything else is meerly passed to the server, 
> and the server implements it, either as a server command or by running 
> it from disk.
> 
> ANFS put a handful of library commands in ROM, but still (almost) 
> absolutely everything is done by the server.
>