IP: May be of interest to IPers: Matchhead sized Webserver

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Reply-To: <jelyon@jelyon.com>
>From: "John Lyon" <jelyon@jelyon.com>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>An interesting bit of technology (imo) which might be of interest to other
>IPers.
>
>      From the website at:
>      http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
>
>"The single chip computer in the above picture runs the iPic web-server, the
>world's tiniest implementation of a TCP/IP stack and a HTTP web-server. The
>chip above is a complete micro-computer, and it includes all components of a
>complete computer on a single tiny micro-chip (this includes the CPU
>(central processing unit), memory, serial port interface circuitry, and
>clock oscillator).
>
>"The chip is connected directly to an Internet router, which is essentially
>the same as an Internet connection from an ISP. When you visit the iPic
>Web-server, by clicking on this demonstration link, (or this mirror), your
>web-browser connects to the chip shown in these photographs and the
>web-pages you see are sent to your web-browser directly from the tiny chip."
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