Re: ELKS Networking: TCP/IP?

[David Murn]

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Brian D Chase wrote:

> I don't want to seem overly abrasive here... but in my totally speculative
> opinion... THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL you could do that in 2K of memory!

You've never seen etherboot, have you?

Hardware driver, IP layer, UDP layer, tftp layer, bootp (or dhcp), pretty 
menu system and boot loader, in 8k.  It's not impossible.

etherboot fits the whole lot into 8k with gcc, and 6k with bcc, so by
trimming some of the fat (such as kernel loader, and ANSI graphics
support), 2k is quite achievable.

> I can accept being wrong about that, but it would require solid proof.

Is etherboot solid enough proof?  http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/ if you
want to see the actual results yourself.

Davey