Keeping pdp11s softwarily viable?

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Thu Sep 16 08:06:47 1999

>> Can't do it all myself, but I'd like to see a port of a minimal
>>version of lynx to 2.11BSD unix. Anyone care to comment on how
>>(im)possible this is and what it would require? [[I'm tired of telnetting
>>to my FreeBSD box everytime I want to mess with the web.]] While we're on
>>it, what about emacs? That shouldn't be so bad since there's already a
>>uEMACS for RSX.
>>
>>jake

>On a related note, does anyone have a browser for RT-11? I've got Telnet
>and FTP running, but would love to add web access :^)

If anything was done for either 2.11 or RT-11, it'd have to be
*very* scaled down from the full lynx.

The CERN line-mode browser does fit on an -11. Of course, you
can always just telnet to port 80.

>Guess I really need to take a look at the source for lynx.

It's huge, and it expects enormous contiguous amounts of memory to
be available for temporary use. Not a realistic way to do things
in the PDP-11's 16-bit memory space.

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