"Meindert Sprang" wrote in
:


Imagine what it would to to the prices of all fairly cheap instruments
the moment they need a more powerfull processor and more memory to run
a TCP/IP stack......

Meindert


What processor? Off-the-shelf components used to interface cheap computers
to TCP/IP? http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir/f/network.htm
http://www.chipcatalog.com/Cat/99.htm


Here's a whole Ethernet IP communications device on one IC...
http://www.anybus.com/eng/products/p...ctType=AnyBus-
IC

Oh, oh....I forgot.....these are STANDARIZED parts, not NMEA manufacturer
proprietaries.....(c;

Yeah, they'd raise the price $10/unit, I suppose.

Think the market would bear it if everything could talk to everything else?