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 -----
From: Tim Hamel <IMDNICE12@AOL.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 2:29 PM
Subject: Something else about the web "Server"


> 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.