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Look at this post from someone on slash-dot (btw, what does "it was slash-dotted" mean!?): The smallest MTU allowed by RFC 1122 is 576 bytes. The 12C509 processor has 41 bytes of RAM. You can write up to 64 bytes to the 24LC256 EEPROM, with the write cycle taking 5 ms. In 5 ms, 66 bytes arrive on the serial link at 115200 bps. I suppose with heavy use of flow control on the serial link, you could buffer a packet to the EEPROM. But I'm still skeptical of an IP stack in 256 instructions.

Slash Dot : v. To post a message on http://www.slashdot.org about a particular web site or service, at which point the thousands of people who view slashdot.org go to that site. Since there are numerous programs which give real-time indication of a new article on slashdot, this can happen with ten minutes of a new article. Generally cool toys and gadgets are more visited than articles about intel chips and open source software. -Adam Tim Hamel wrote: > > Look at this post from someone on slash-dot (btw, what does "it was > slash-dotted" mean!?):

So a guy in a bar that says "drinks on me" will be slash-dotted? <g> Thanks for the definition. Tim Hamel In a message dated 7/14/99 2:39:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Adam writes: > Slash Dot : v. To post a message on http://www.slashdot.org about a particular web > site > or service, at which point the thousands of people who view slashdot.org go > to > that site. Since there are numerous programs which give real-time > indication of > a new article on slashdot, this can happen with ten minutes of a new article. > > Generally cool toys and gadgets are more visited than articles about intel > chips > and open source software. > > -Adam

It gets better... HTTP/1.0 and i2c FileSys, 3~99 inst UDP+TCP, 70~99 inst ICMP [ping -s 11], 0~14 inst IP, 68~77 inst SLIP, 76 inst Buffered UART, 38~56 inst RTOS/rma, 3~15 inst So, apparently the TCP/IP stack in total takes 99+77=176 instructions! My bullshit radar is going off the scale... Cheers, Ben {Original Message removed}