Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:56:53 +0100


>you want to make it as easy as possible to find settings which work.
>Thirdly, if a dropout occurs on a phone line then you can just ask the
>sender to repeat the last packet; this is impossible with tape devices.

The BBC Micro used to prompt you to rewind the tape so it could try again. :-)

p.

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