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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. Down in three seconds flat by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want to slashdot it, the IP address is visible in some of the screen shots. It's 169.254.226.132, but I'm not cruel enough to actually turn that into a hyperlink. :-)

    1. Re:Down in three seconds flat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you want to slashdot it, the IP address is visible in some of the screen shots. It's 169.254.226.132, but I'm not cruel enough to actually turn that into a hyperlink. :-)

      Here you go :)

    2. Re:Down in three seconds flat by Kevinv · · Score: 4, Funny

      How could you tell if it were slashdotted? 20 seconds per page is already a slashdotted server....

    3. Re:Down in three seconds flat by FyRE666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you want to slashdot it, the IP address is visible in some of the screen shots. It's 169.254.226.132, but I'm not cruel enough to actually turn that into a hyperlink. :-)
      Yeah, and anyone stupid enough to believe it'll work outside of a local network should also try 127.0.0.1 for a cool Pr0n site!

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    4. Re:Down in three seconds flat by beebware · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cool - you're right - there is some really good porn on http://127.0.0.1/ , but it must be a really old site and I'm sure I've seen it before...

  2. To quote Zahpod Beeblebrox... by Kevinv · · Score: 5, Funny

    ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking.

    I actually have some Apple //e's lying around. Maybe I'll dig up an ethernet card and see if i can get this to work.

  3. Imagine.. by iLEZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of... Nah...

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    You cant fight in here, its a war room!
  4. 20-35 Seconds Per Page?!? by travail_jgd · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Pre-slashdotted for your convenience."

  5. I get a slightly faster transfer speed by dbleoslow · · Score: 5, Funny

    with my fax machine. It's not nearly as cool though.

  6. Source code has no copyright notice by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't he worried about someone else commercialising this?

  7. I must be getting rusty. by mhandlon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've looked at assembly and not understood it, I've looked at C and not understood it, and I think every time I have looked anything in perl I've not understood it. But, now the unthinkable has happened and I've looked at basic and not understood it.

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  8. Re:WOW! And they said.. by BabyDave · · Score: 3, Funny
    BASIC rules!I want Basic back! Is there any Basic interpreters for my FreeBSD?

    Screw that - I want a version of FreeBSD written in BASIC

  9. EhBASIC by iantri · · Score: 5, Funny

    And here I was thinking this was some sort of obscure Canadian BASIC..

  10. EhBasic? by headkase · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I first read its name, I thought it was Canadian. :)

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    Shh.
  11. it isn't complete by BoneFlower · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until it breaks mozilla while running fine in IE.

  12. Re:How long til it gets slashdotted? by gellenburg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm... you're right.

    This "BASIC" Webserver & TCP/IP Stack will go down in the annals of History as being the first ever webserver to become /.'ed before it's address even makes it to /. to begin with. :-)