Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: TCP/IP on HP-IL? Message-ID: Date: 4 May 89 02:36:50 GMT References: <1989May3.180345.6936@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 15 In-reply-to: henry@utzoo.uucp's message of 3 May 89 18:03:45 GMT 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.