Re: [Rpcemu] RPCEmu at the RISC OS London Show, 26-10-2019

On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, at 08:17, Sprow wrote:
> In article <01fea574-c85a-43bf-82b2-d4561a993a99@www.fastmail.com>, Richard
> Walker <richardwalker@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> >
> > And even further down my crazy line of thought, add emulation of the Econet
> > interface? Mind you, not sure what you would actually join that up to, as
> > real Econet interfaces in Linux/macOS/Windows are not exactly common...
>
> You can send Econet over IP, so no need to emulate the 5 wire balanced line
> stuff. NetI is the module that does the stuff, it's still there in RISC OS 5.

True, I suppose that would connect you to another Ethernet-connected Net service such as Level 4 file server.

I guess it is things like an MDFS or FileStore that need the classic interface (or perhaps messing about with the GateWay app, I cannot remember!).



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Richard Walker
richardwalker@letterboxes.org

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