> > How much complex do you think a browser for the 8-bit C= can be? > > IMHO, the only tags that would *required* to be implemented are <A> (for > the hyperlinks), <br>/<p>, and the forms-lot. Everything beyond that is > pure luxury *cough* :) Hm. In Lynx/Bobcat/others, I like having a rendering of the page close enough to the original, just to understand it. > > 320x200 image takes 8K if monochrome. Compressing and downsampling takes a > > lot of CPU time and there's the real risk of making everything unreadable. > > Well, if the results of Netscape on a monochrome (1-bit) Xterminal are an > indication, I'd say that it'll be rather useless. Well, being Wave a reality, I think it just depends on the dithering algorhythm. Will try out a monochrome X server on a spare 486 here (in my fleet designated as USS Jose Chung)... > This all said, I had this nice little device sitting on my desk yesterday, > consisting of a 8051 at 24 MHz (Comparable with a 2 MHz 6502 :-D ) and an > Ethernet controller. They managed to put a web *server* in there, which had > even enough free code-space to store objects locally (They used a P89C51RD+, > which has 64K FLASH rom, alongside with 1 K RAM. It's not completely unfeasable > that the Ethernet controller has some on-chip RAM as well, though) > > Very nifty. Plug it in a HUB, and your fridge sends you an e-mail if the > beer is cold enough. Huh? I'm also very interested. What sort of kernel and/or TCP-IP stack runs on that? The 8051, if memory sustains, is a microcontroller shipped in a variety of versions, one with internal BASIC interpreter and TTL serial I/O (good to use a C= as its console, connected via the User Port). yo, RDO - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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