13 Aug
2010
13 Aug
'10
2:30 p.m.
Alexey Toptygin wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Fred Cisin wrote:
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 :-)
Surely a graphical browser, (if NOT done in a
High Level Language) could
be written to run on a 5150 with CGA.
I don't know about that... Google is not what I'd call a
graphics-intensive site, but a single page of results is 64k html, and
about as much again in images. You can eat up 640k real fast that way,
and that doesn't include any of the code you need for a TCP/IP stack,
stub DNS resolver, parsing HTML (and let's not forget the memory cost of
intermediate representations, unless you want to pay for a full reparse
every time there's an exposure event) applying CSS, layout, rendering
any number of image formats, input handling, forms, cookies... Let's not
even think about supporting ECMA script, without which you won't be able
to use any web 2.0 sites, and I shudder to think of what you'd have to
do to try to run flash on an on-topic machine.