Networking, but… without wires? What is this dark magick?!Networking, but… without wires? What is this dark magick?!

Well, you need to bear in mind that when RISC OS was designed in 1986-87 or so, Ethernet was new and expensive -- I was still putting in 10base-2 in 1988-89 -- & TCP/IP only ran on university or departmental scale minicomputers costing as much as a house.