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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. I can see it now... by lalonso · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Today Microsoft announced that it has contracted Lee Davison to write a brand new TCP/IP stack for upcoming versions of the Windows operating system, including Longhorn and a service release of Windows 2003 Server. "We hope that this ground breaking technology will usher in a new era of reliability and speed for our enterprise-level server products as well as our consumer operating systems," said a Microsoft spokesman....

  2. DoS attacks in BASIC? by dysprosia · · Score: 0, Redundant

    10 PING WEBSITE 20 GOTO 10 I shudder at the thought! ;)