On 2008-06-26, Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
Your computer sounds very compact. What are the specs? Which chip?
Zydas? Prism? OS? I am always interesed to see how spartan
requirements get for such devices.

It's wired ethernet (100baseTX and 10baseT autonegotiation) rather than
wireless. The chip is the Wiznet W5100 which is aimed at 8 bit/embedded
applications. It includes a TCP/IP offload engine too - it's a pretty
flexible chip - it gives you the option of using as much of its inbuilt
stuff as you want - you can write your own stack and talk straight to
the MAC, or you can just use its IP layer, or use the whole thing.

The old 8 bit machine it's for is one of these, which were enormously
popular over he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zx_spectrum

Quite a lot of the work is software. It's different to write a DHCP
client in Z80 assembler :-)

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