This is what I've been looking for. A way to use my talents with the WWW on a really
retro piece of hardware to have some fun with HTML.
I'd be happy to work on it as an additional tester but I don't have (AFAIK) BASIC
2+ for RSX-11M+
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On 13 Apr 2012, at 13:41, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
This is perhaps slightly offtopic, but fun enough that I like to announce it anyway...
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Ok. I just thought I'd stir some interest and just general noise by announcing that
I've written a small web-server running under RSX.
It's written in BASIC+2, and uses the TCP/IP stack for RSX that I've also written.
There are probably a bunch of bugs and issues still around, so I'm happy to take any
bug reports, comments or whatever.
The url is
http://madame.update.uu.se/, and if anyone is curious about the code, it's
at mim.update.uu.se (same machine, other IP), under MIM::DU:[HTTPD]WWW.B2S (also on
HECnet)
If people have any interest in this stuff, or something else/more, I'm interested in
hearing about it. The TCP/IP stack will eventually (soon) be available for others to
download and use, and apart from the web server, I've also written a telnet client,
and a few small services under TCP, as well as some tools for administration. I have some
polishing to do, I need to finish a DNS resolved, and I'd like to also finish FTP and
a telnet server, but I might be open to distributing things before I've finished all
those things, especially if someone is interested in helping writing stuff.
I have interfaces completed for BASIC+2, PDP-11 C, Macro-11. FORTRAN 77 should also work,
but I haven't tried it yet.
This all runs under RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6, but I think it should be possible to get running
under almost any M+ version, but there might be some hacking needed for some versions.
It will not work under 11M, and I never expect it to. One or two drivers as well as one or
two tools really are big enough that I need to use the split I/D space feature in M+.
Rewriting stuff to not need that is way too much work.
Johnny
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