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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5686)	8/19/1999 2:13:00 PM
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August 19, 1999 49 cents matchstick server, beating the match box-size more-expensive server. By Hariharasubrahmanian Shrikumar NEWS WATCH As Small as a Match Tip, This Server Costs 49 Cents graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has lighted a match under the competition to build the world's smallest Web server. The server built this year by the student, Hariharasubrahmanian Shrikumar, measures about a quarter of an inch by a quarter of an inch, about the size of a match tip, the university said. It broke the record held by a researcher at Stanford University, whose server was the size of a matchbox. Access to the server may be gained through www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/shri/iPic.html. The server has received more than 300,000 visits from 60 countries since going up on July 14, Mr. Shrikumar said. The significance of the tiny Web server lies not so much in its practical ability to play host to Web pages but in its ability to handle the language of the Internet, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. "What this shows is that you can get a lean and mean version of TCP/IP in a chip that costs no more than 49 cents apiece," Mr. Shrikumar said. JENNIFER 8. LEE