Say, Keith,
That would be a really gr8 ( :-D I'm glad this isn't the "Damned SMS" thread ) idea, putting up a programmable 8051 on the net. The ultimate form of ditance learning: doing a hardware practical course over the internet, where the hardware is in one country and the student is in another.

But how would you feedback the results of the executing code? Not only would you have to write some cgi code, you may have to implement a virtual Logic Analyzer. Or maybe even a pseudo-JTAG interface :-))

Anyway, there are always the simulators to fall back on. UMPS is my favourite, even the code-memory-limited shareware version. You can actually connect peripherals to your virtual uC, and I hear you can even have multiple uCs simulated on that. You can simulate the entire system before moving on to hardware development. How great is that?

And one last line relevant to the topic of this thread:

You can use long names, but you don't have to make them TOO long... for example, instead of Data_Output_Buffer_Index, Data_OP_buf_indx is just as descriptive. But then, as far as coding style goes, its to each (company) his (its) own (established coding standards), as long as the standards do not vary over time or space.

kundi