solarwind wrote: >> Why do you think you need an RTOS? > > Primarily so that my nodes can do multiple things at once such as > poll sensors, manage protocol, execute commands given by other nodes > and so on in a clean and timely fashion. On a PIC16, it is likely that any general-purpose RTOS will do this less timely than the simpler techniques, because of the overhead the general-purpose RTOS introduces. Gerhard -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist