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Contiki on Ethernut
randomErr writes "Many of you may remember Contiki, the OS and GUI for the C64 and many other 8 bit platforms, which was posted on Slashdot in March. Adam Dunkels has ported Contiki to a more modern platorm: the open source Ethernut board. You can also see the working webserver and VNC server."
You can also see the working webserver and VNC server.
:)
If that webserver is hooked up to the net, you won't be seeing it for long.
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The answer should be obvious: a web server able to run on a C64 can run on any embedded system that can emulate a 6502 CPU. This means I can put a web server into my mouse. The possibilities are stunning...
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The answer is simple: because we can!
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Yes, within 5 years all mice will have Bluetooth and you can surf to your mouse site and ask stuff like 'how many clicks have I done since whenever'. Using your keyboard, hopefully.
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Just say it's rumored to contian SCOde - all hell will break lose.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Now go forth, Slashdot readers, and give that server a good kick in the ethernuts!
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Imagine a low cost, already documented, platform that could be used for say plastic injection machine controllers. Think about a Minitel like device for a $100.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
It seems so unfair, Ethernut vs. Slashdot vs.
/cgi/tcp page and check the connections, truely evil.
Almost like David vs. Goliath, except in this case, David has two broken arms, no legs, 3 gunshot wounds center mass, and massive blunt trauma to the head. And Goliath is a hungry T-Rex.
I gotta say, the thing appears to still be responding right now as I post, not bad, not bad at all. Not necessarily *working*, but responding. Hit that
Wow, 15 comments, and the Ethernut webserver is still running fine. Wow, I'm impressed! Looks like servedby.advertising.com is going to be /.ed before that card! :-)
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HA. I got to see the true Slashdot effect in action.
... that's right, TWO... connections. Literally, a few seconds later I refreshed the page and constantly got garbage in return. (Basically, it looked like the server would never output the entire HTML document. I'd sometimes see some gibberish, sometimes some CSS code, sometimes only the navigation table...) After about 60 seconds of refreshing the page, I finally saw the page again. Results: about 50 connections. And this Slashdot article only has 19 comments so far.
:D
I went to the Current Connections screen and only saw 2
Burn little server, burn.
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Faster than IIS, I should add. Reminds me of a naive qn. I used to ask: If a 486@66MHz and 20MB RAM can run Win95, and pretty fast as well, why can't we have 100 times faster response with a PentiumIV@ 2.4GHz running WinXP (which is upposed to be faster than Win2K, which in turn is supposed to be faster than Win98 which in turn is supposed to be faster than Win95)
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
This is the FIRST site I can still access, full 15 minutes after a Slashdot article! Maybe a lesson in it for all bloatware.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
And, it seems like the web server is withstanding the Slashdot effect! I remember there was actualy a C64 based web server that was actualy able to hold up based on some pretty impressive TCP hacks that made the connections 'stateless' (by embedding state in the TCP sequence number, IIRC)
:)
:P
That said, I doubt a 14 mhz chip would really have that much of a problem dealing with hits. I think most of the systems that 'go down' when hit by a hit torrent do so because A) They run out of bandwidth, get capped, etc. or B) They are using super-bloated web app code when they really don't need to. You often see things like "MySQL errors" and the like from too many user connections. I think a lot of web developers don't really bother to code for efficiency at all. I mean seriously, the work you need to do to serve a mostly static page is really tiny. An intelligent caching routine should solve most of the problems, but most web-apps it seems get all data out of the DB every run, possibly doing multiple queries. Keep in mind a 386 running Apache can saturate a t1 line. That would have a clock speed of about the same thing, I think the fastest 386 was about 25 mhz. Of course, this is a 32 bit chip, not 8
The way autopr0n works, I have a class system that holds all the data, and gets updated independently of the database whenever new data is entered. I hardly ever need to do a query to get new data out of the system. Unfortunately, this means that it's using code I wrote myself, which is just buggy as hell : P. Oh well. It runs 'well enough'
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I think most of the slowness comes from lazynes. Designers use DBs for everything, even pages that never change. I honestly belive a lot of web apps out there that use huge-ass systems could easily be run on a normal PC with some good optimization and caching routines.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Microsoft better watch out. Contiki is on its way to running on every platform in the world. Once that has been achieved. He'll release a "killer app" and over take Microsoft's domination.
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Almost like David vs. Goliath, except in this case, David has two broken arms, no legs, 3 gunshot wounds center mass, and massive blunt trauma to the head. And Goliath is a hungry T-Rex.
A T-Rex relies on motion to identify possible meat sources. Your David would be completely immobile. (Of course, after a good Slashdotting, so it the average web server.)
Hey, just kidding. :)
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I'm shocked - both the webserver and the VNC server are still up and running. The VNC server is -extremely- slow - you can see it redrawing the individual chars on the screen at the rate of maybe a dozen a second - but it's still going.
:c)
What's the matter with you people - has the slashdot effect lost it's teeth to the point where it can't even crash a little embedded system like this? For shame!
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