Abstract for group popi

To implement a full TCP/IP stack on top of the ASIX
ethernet controller provided by the XESS board, and on top of that,
a simple POP3 program to poll a remote server for a text message
sent to an email address. When a text (SMS) message is sent to the
email address, the XESS board will download it and display the
message on its video screen.

Details: We will need to implement a working TCP/IP stack on the
XESS board. As of now, we do not know how much will need to be done
to meet the Ethernet controller in hardware. We do anticipate that
the POP3 program will be in software. We plan to use something
similiar to the terminal emulater from lab 2, although put some of
it in hardware. We plan to use the same video driver we used for
lab 2 as the video driver for this board.

A POP3 program--for our purposes--is simple enough to write from
scratch in C.

Since implementing encryption on this board is too complex, we will
need to use a very simple POP server that allows plaintext
passwords, if any are required.