> First of all, what a disorganized article. Who the hell edited this?

I have to agree. It didn't really turn out as well as I wanted. The talk is really good, but I could never make this read smoothly.

Fortunately I think the content is excellent and that will hopefully save the day.

My take is along the lines of the earlier embedded systems comment. This is the sort of thing you would have done in a real-time OS snagging packets directly in an ISR and queuing them to a task for later processing. The processor and memory suggestions are just common practice in that arena.

But that kind of sucks for numerous reasons. It's great having a widely supported OS that you can leverage while replacing the bits you need to meet your goals. That's pretty genius in my book.