Re: Adding second NIC

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Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:
> I have a friend who does a lot of embedded stuff. His claim is that the vendor of his
> development system sells, for $500, an unlimited-binary-distribution license for a TCP/IP
> stack that takes 17K bytes of executable image. His next product is going to be TCP/IP
> instead of serial port, and we're discussing the schedule of when I'll add the TCP/IP
> support to the program. So it is not at all surprising to me that someone with a barcode
> scanner put TCP/IP in. It is now very cheap.

That's weird. It just seems to add unneeded overhead for a device that
can already function as a keyboard input and / or use a serial port
easily enough.

Guess I need to get with the times!

.

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