Good point. Similar to IP and TCP -- from an embedded programmer's perspective, IP is one of the most icky and hardware-unfriendly protocols around. When my fri

Good point. Similar to IP and TCP -- from an embedded programmer's perspective, IP is one of the most icky and hardware-unfriendly protocols around. When my friend was at university, they told them about IP just in passing, saying, "it'll die any day now." But now it's everywhere, and it works.