Smallest TCP/IP code?

[Jochen Kunz]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:10:44 -0500
Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:

>  Tom> Any ideas on what the smallest/easiest to port TCP and IP code
>  Tom> might be? I keep having this abberant idea of writing TCP/IP
>  Tom> code for the Data General Nova, for RDOS, for a mapped
>  Tom> foreground/background system.
[...]
> Anyway, the BSD 2.x code might be helpful; after all that fits into a
> PDP-11.   And it's written in C.
I just thought the same.

> As for the compiler, you could do a Nova port for GCC... :-)
Or modify the 2.x BSD cc to emit code for the Nova... I know that the
old BSD PCC was extended to support ANSI C and emit PDP-10 code for the
PDP-10 port of NetBSD because PCC is so small and simple.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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