Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

2 of 251 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Down in three seconds flat by ultrapenguin · · Score: 5, Informative

    NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
    is one of those "non-routable private IP address spaces".

    RTFRFC

  2. data statements by magarity · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's the chuncking through those data statements at the end that helps really beats up performance. Defining all those as strings at the beginning will ameliorate that problem.