''Econet'' is an abbreviation of . It was used in the early 1980s by Acorn to provide Computer Networking for the BBC Micro . Modules were later produced for the BBC Master and Master Compact models, which were even used in the Acorn Archimedes series.
Econet is a 5-wire bus network. One pair of wires are used for the clock, one pair for data transmission and one wire is a common ground. Connections were established using a four-way handshake. The sender would broadcast. There could be up to 254 devices on a network, and up to 127 networks bridged together.
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