Dear Everybody,

Thank you for your replies. I agree. There really are some valid applications. I especially like the idea of using the browser as the user-interface. It really makes things easier.

However, I think we look at it on a different scale (this is not the first time in this forum). I come from a consumer electronics background where anything less than 100k/units per month doesn't make economic sense. These are the things I consider "killer-apps".

Not that oil pumps, meters, monitoring and stuff like that is not important... coz they are, but there are not much sales in these, compared to i.e. the Playstation or PC markets.

So, from my perspective, I still don't see any major application that can bring an 8051 with TCP/IP into the mainstream.

You may want to know that I talked to Zilog who makes the eZ80 internet CPU. They basically bet their company on embedded TCP/IP. However, they are also talking about low-volume products like instrumentation, controls etc.

Their only "killer-app" was a plug-in to a PDA so that you can control your MP3 player from it (duh!). I thought PDAs could play MP3 directly?

Anyway, I hope we can keep this thread going for a while more. Like the rest of you, I think TCP/IP is cool.... I just don't think I will bet my companys future on it :)


Jesper