Keeping pdp11s softwarily viable? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Sep 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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