I have developed an application that runs on an STD-BUS based platform. It boots under DOS, but then 'takes over the box' after booting. It provides UDP/IP (written by me) over 10BaseT to a host and drives as many as 24 serial ports at up to 38,400 baud each. The whole thing runs in 640K real mode. The .EXE file is about 50KB. It seems kind of funny: we have people running UDP/IP on resource limited PICs, and it seems the next level up people are talking about multimegabyte platforms. Bob Ammerman RAm Systems (contract development of high performance, high function, low-level software) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter L. Peres" <plp@ACTCOM.CO.IL> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 3:07 AM Subject: Re: [PIC]: PC104 recommendations > >software > > Well, you might need DOS and a packet driver for your ethernet card, a > TCP/IP stack (trumpet ?), and a compiler that comes with libraries > suitable for socket level TCP/IP (streams, not UDP). Since there are > applications that run under DOS like this (ex: Lynx text mode www browser) > you should have no trouble locating the parts. The DOS license would be > the most interesting part imho. If you reach 4MB RAM needed to run and > 1.5MB ROM or flash then consider embedded Linux seriously. The TCP/IP > stack will consume a lot of memory anyway so you might need it. I do not > know if a DOS machine can stand up to 115K, processing, and TCP/IP > continuously. > > hope this helps, > > Peter > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.