Rochester, 27 september 2005.
 Dear Harold,
 From your description I assume you want to keep it simple on the Windows
side, but don't care about the complexity on the PIC side. There might be
simpler methods, but the one I came up with was using SLIP: at the windows
side this would just involve doing "Add New Connection" -> "Connect directl=
y
to another computer" -> "Guest" -> "COM1" -> Properties -> Networking ->
SLIP. Don't forget to set an IP address.
 Of course, implementing SLIP on the PIC might not be easy (though it is a
fairly simple protocol, it would imply implementing TCP/IP as well, at leas=
t
to the point where you can accept WWW requests, as well as the WWW server)
but it would keep things quite simple on the Windows side. RFC 1055 contain=
s
more information about SLIP. It might be possible to use SLIP to multiple
PICs connected the way you described, and even between PICs, but I doubt
anyone has ever done it.
 Greetings,
Maarten Hofman.
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