At 10:59 AM 1/30/98 +1300, Andrew Mayo  wrote:
>Well, essentially we're just using http as the protocol, which is just
>simple ASCII, but of course an embedded Web server is expected to
>support a range of communications protocols, and although simple RS-232
>is one of them, and trivial to implement, what if you want to connect
>this embedded Web server onto a LAN?. I think you need more smarts than
>a PIC to handle the communications. If the PIC device needs a terminal
>server to get data, it ain't much of an embedded device.

Would the Motorola MC68160 with a MC68360 make the nut here?  This is what
the TAPR group is using as the ethernet interface for their spread spectrum
radio.  I have no idea what these chips cost, and the 68360 seems to be a
microprocessor itself, but if there was a two chip solution to this it
would make a very small embedded webserver.

I saw the article in the latest issue of Circuit Cellar, Inc, on this, but
I couldn't find any indication of how the communications were being
handled.  There was also a reference in that issue to a previous issue that
I don't have that discussed putting a tcp/ip stack in a PIC.  That article
might have had information on interfacing it.

John Hansen