Steve Fosdick wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:51:58PM -0400, Ashley T . Howes wrote:
I just looked at these. In June 2001 3.3% of visitors were using a BBC Micro
That is interesting. I wonder what kind of web browser you could write to run in a machine with 32K RAM. Of course, if you made the
Later BBCs had more RAM.
browser a "language ROM" you get an additional 16K for your code, and can use the RAM that frees up for data.
So, does anyone know of a web browser for the BBC Micro?
I am writing a web browser for the QL in SuperBasic (and now in C, using curses). However the project started out on an Acorn RiscPC in BBC Basic, this should work on a BBC given some alteration. A TCP/IP stack (and code to work with it) would be needed and I know of several 8 bit computers with them, so it could be done.
Yours Tarquin Mills