nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (05/04/89)
Has anyone ever played with the idea of doing TCP/IP over HP-IL? (HP-IL, for those unfamiliar with it, is a 1 Mbps asynchronous current- loop ring network meant for small low-power devices such as the HP-41 calculator; I recently picked up an HP-IL interface for the IBM-PC.) SLIP and friends should be directly applicable. (Henry -- I'm only partially teasing -- it would be an interesting hack -- maybe I could start a competition for the smallest machine on the Internet? But anyway, Phil Karn's NET would work nicely as a router -- all you would need is a MIDI packet driver. Send me a MIDI interface for the PC and programmer's docs and I'll write one.) -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) I'm a right-to-lifer -- everyone has a right to earn a living sufficient to feed himself and his family.
romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey) (05/04/89)
In article <NELSON.89May3223650@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >(Henry -- I'm only partially teasing -- it would be an interesting hack -- >maybe I could start a competition for the smallest machine on the Internet? >But anyway, Phil Karn's NET would work nicely as a router -- all you would >need is a MIDI packet driver. Send me a MIDI interface for the PC and >programmer's docs and I'll write one.) Hey, if my toaster is going to run TCP, then your calculator and Henry's synth should be able to, too...