Minimal web server

[Taavi Burns]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:30:53 -0500, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> The purpose of the utility I wrote, was simply to return an error code
> of zero.  Someone else was trying to write a batch file (DOS) and needed
> to reset the error code.  It was quite simple to create it using debug.
>   I also tried it in C, but the resulting code was somewhere around 4 or
> 5 KB!
> 
> Also, years ago in Byte Magazine, they'd occasionally have a contest, to
> see who could write the smallest amount of code, to perform some
> function.  The one I recall, was to write zeros to all of memory.

Oh, the demo scene is still quite alive and kicking:
http://www.256b.com

Linux isn't exactly left out, even if it's not all that popular:
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html (how it's done)
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/ (bunch of apps)

And while I'm at it, I must confess to at least a passing interest in the art of
form-over-content:
http://www.ioccc.org

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