Actually in one of the recent issues of circuit cellar ink they have a small
blurb on a guy who implemented an "internet appliance" using a PIC which
talks TCP/IP.

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Jay Shroff
Product Development - (Process controls)
Fanuc Robotics


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Merrill <merrill@NICMAD.NICOLET.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: TCP/IP


>Now lets not overdo it here. :) TCP/IP isn't that complicated - I've ported
>a TCP/IP stack to the Motorola 68332 micro.  It was a big project, but
>certainly not impossible.  TCP/IP isn't "many" layers - it's two layers:
>TCP and IP.  If you count the ethernet layer, it's three layers. The TCP
>layer is pretty simple, it just breaks the message into "datagrams" and
>hands them to the IP layer. The IP layer finds the route needed to get to
>the other end. Finally, the Ethernet layer acts like a driver for the
>network hardware.  I think the most difficult thing about doing this on a
>PIC would be porting it to 8-bits.
>                                                        - Dennis
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