At 03:01 PM 5/17/97 +0200, Henrik Jensen wrote:
>The thought had crossed my mind! But if I could connect the Pic directly to
>the ethernet card + simple power supply + some pic code, I would get a much
>smaller and cheaper device ( I'm planning more than one here!). I think if
>it is possible to make a ethernet card that connects to the parallel port,
>why shouldn't it be possible to connect it to the PIC.

I think you're talking about a _major_ coding job to run the ethernet card,
assuming the PIC could handle the timing and background stuff necessary to
even _run_ an ethernet card. For the cost of a parallel port ethernet
adapter ($30 would buy a e-net card, _not_ a parallel one), you could
probably put together and old 286 machine equipped to do the e-net thing.

If you're talking about running _lots_ of PICs why not RS-485?

Chris

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                  Christopher Zguris  -  czguris@interport.net
                                HSTA, HRCA, AMA

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