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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>   But it seems to me that if the object is to use TCP to emulate hardware,
> one should design for that hardware and do whatever is needed with UDP or
> TCP to make the best emulation.  Is the intended hardware going to be
> polled or generate interrupts or Windows messages or what?

The real sensor hardware will be directly connected to the I/O pins of
the mcu.  I think that counts as polling.  The application code simply
reads variables from the h/w abstraction layer.