CP/M TCP/IP (was Re: CP/M coding question)

Take a look at the Zilog EZ-80 or Z84C15. The Z84C15 has everything you should need as far as peripherials. Just add FLASH and SRAM. Some of the high end PICs might be applicable, but personally, I can't stand the little buggers. Other choices might be the Atmel Mega128, or one of the TI MSP430s with dual UARTS. The difference is that while the Z84C15 has real UARTS with real handshaking lines (the venerable SIO core), all these other UARTS are basically 2 wires. You want handshaking, you'll have to manage all that yourself. Not rocket science, but it is extra code and hardware. The real problem is there are *way* too many choices in micros that will fit the bill for what you want to do. Start going less mainstream, you've got the ARM cores, SH/x series from Hitachi (verra nice parts), custom x86 cores, PowerPC, ST9 or ST10, yada yada yada. For projects with sensitive production costs, you can really get down there, but at the cost of going with questionable tools and suppliers. --John -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Pat Finnegan Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:31 To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: CP/M TCP/IP (was Re: CP/M coding question) [snip] Right now I'm looking at either a Z80 with 32k of ram, 16k of flash, a CTC and one or two DUARTS, or a uC that'll provide as much of that in hardware as possible. PICs are nice, but generally seem to have too little memory for TX/RX buffers, and Basic stamps are too slow. (and who wants to program in BASIC anyways?) Any suggestions on a good uC to use? -- Pat