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I had built (with a couple of other people) a TCP/IP stack for the Z80 in the late 90s. And a small HTTP server to go with it. It had a weird CGI like interface

I had built (with a couple of other people) a TCP/IP stack for the Z80 in the late 90s. And a small HTTP server to go with it. It had a weird CGI like interface to call some subroutine for a path. The intention was to use it in some kind of industrial equipment where users could directly point their browser to this HTTP server and get status updates. A super simple IOT, if you will. This was actually for Zilog itself who were positioning the (already faded) chip for embedded networking. It was perfect for such applications! Good memories.

jhallenworld 6y ago
Dataprobe's original "iBoot" worked like this: http://dataprobe.com/iboot-hub/ http://dataprobe.com/iboot-hub/ It had a built-in web server running on an 8051! It interfaced with an Ethernet chip using a parallel FIFO interface- maybe NE2000 based chip? I don't remember..
- astatine 6y ago
  I had a similar parallel interface to an Ethernet daughterboard. I too don't recollect the make. But there was a serial PPP based option as well - it made perfect sense when main stream modems were anyway 9600 baud or lesser.