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From: Adriano Verardo <a.verardo@tecmav.com>
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C H Forsyth wrote:
>>Could a EOD field in Rread be useful ? In some cases it would avoid
>>a lot of messages. I think a very small servers (mController) and low
>>channels.
> 
> 
> yes, although we didn't find it a huge problem on the lego brick,
> but then again the timing constraints were fairly lax, even for the lego clock.
> we did run a zero-compressing run-length-encoding scheme to compress stat entries
> (lots of 28 byte NAMELEN things) and thus directories, but that would have been
> less necessary with the current 9p2000/styx encoding; if perhaps still useful.

I could have strict timing constraints. I'm trying to understand how 
fast can be a (not too expensive) net of mCtrl coordinated in "Plan9 style".

I read the paper about the Goofy toy (Pisupati, Brown, Indiana Un.), 
based on a TI MSP430. Is there anyone in the 9fans community who tried 
9P2000 on a Microchip's PIC ?

Adriano