You havent told us what the protocol requirments are, any scheduling
problem is a balance between fairness,
latency, throughput and complexity which is why different protocols are
still being invented.

I'm looking to implement a RS422 multidrop protocol soon too so your ideas
were interesting.

At 11:05 AM 10/08/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I've been thinking over the last week or so that internet connected PIC
>projects would be an excellent idea. Instead of having to write a host
>application interface everytime you can just use an existing IP stack. Also
>you get internet routing for free....




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