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A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rebirth-of-the-line-editor dept.

A writes "Back in the day, a BASIC interpreter was standard on every home computer system and everyone had to know at least a little BASIC to be able to use their computer. But who would have thought that you could write some serious networking code in BASIC over 20 years later? Just a few days ago, Lee Davison released the BASIC source code for his 6502-based Ethernet web server. The web server runs under his EhBASIC interpreter on the 1 MHz 6502 CPU and is able to blast out web pages at an amazing speed of 20-35 seconds per page!" Sure, it's not really practical, but I give it cool points.

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  1. Damn by (insert+nick+here) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why can't everyone just agree that BASIC is dead, should stay dead and preferably staked through the heart?

    I personally can't see any use at all for BASIC.

  2. If The Open Source Crowd Invented BASIC Today... by reallocate · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This story will surely provoke a batch of silly and ignorant BASIC-bashing posts from people who think learning about programming stops when they choose a language, but consider:

    Suppose BASIC didn't exist, and some contemporary open source developer released a full-blown compiler for a language equivalent to ANSI BASIC, or the dialect supported by PowerBasic, or even Visual Basic. Some folks, I imagine, might like what they see.

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  3. Re:Source code has no copyright notice by isorox · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    SCO already own the copyright