*Shrug* Here at R.I.T. Comp Sci House we've had drink despensing(sp)
machines for years. Infact some guy patented them a few years ago and is
trying to get us for it laugh. To bad we've been using them before he was
an itch in his fathers pants.
Thanks,
-Leif Hardison
hardware.doa.org
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, David Murn wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Gaurav Lochan wrote:
>
> > About ELKS, well, i wanted to know WHY you havent been able to write a
> > TCP/IP stack for it ?
>
> To start with, there IS the beginnings of a TCP/IP stack. I think the
> author managed to get it to reply to pings, but I'm not sure if he did or
> not. The big problem is that we're very tight on memory space, so the
> code has to be small.
>
> > ps whats this about Coke machines being operated off the net ??
>
> I dunno about that, but I know that coke machines plug into a phone line
> so that when they have a fault, or when they need to be re-stocked, they
> contact coke, and someone comes out to deal with it.
>
> Davey
>
