Now you have
me thinking about how fun it'd be to try if you hada few
5150s... maybe one for the network stack, one for display, and one for
intermediate processing, all linked together via some homebrew parallel
link :-)
The easier approach IMO is to treat the 5150 as a smart terminal and
put all the web browser smarts on another machine. The 5150 interacts
with the browser through a serial port connection.
I did that for HyperLink 2.5 for the C64. A Perl proxy ran on the other
side and distilled down HTML into an intermediate page description language
that the C64 displayed.
It worked pretty well, but if I did it again, I would have made the page
language more SGML-like (it was based on an earlier offline hypermedia
package I wrote that I repurposed as a browser).
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