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I'm surprised that there isn't a league table of tiny web servers out there on the Internet. Surely there's a subculture out there who are crazy enough to make
by femto 14y ago
I'm surprised that there isn't a league table of tiny web servers out there on the Internet. Surely there's a subculture out there who are crazy enough to make a hobby of eking the last little bit of performance out of a Z80, 6800 or 6502? Tightly optimised assembly loops and hand crafted packets competing for the glory of surviving for the longest under a Slashdotting...
- GigabyteCoin 14y agoIt is tough for many hackers to get their hands on the machines you mention there, but I could see something like that taking off with all the Raspberry Pis that are being delivered as we speak.
- fuzzix 14y agoThe Pi is a veritable supercomputer when compared to, say, the Sinclair ZX81 - A handful of kilobytes of RAM max, ~3MHz Z80 chip... There is a ZX81-based web server public on the web, I won't link it here for obvious reasons. (Search for "Siggis ZX81 web server" if you really wish to see it.)