[Coco] How about a CoCo Web Browser?

[Jeff Teunissen]

Andrew wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:11:38 -0400
>> From: "RJLCyberPunk" <cyberpunk at prtc.net>
>> Subject: [Coco] How about a CoCo Web Browser?
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>> OK now that they have a wireless blue tooh "RS232" pak for the CoCo that 
>> would and should allow it to use the PC it links too as a server to connect 
>> to the internet wouldn't the next logical step be to develop a CoCo web 
>> browser?
>> 
>> One that is at least text based with limited graphics capability like this 
>> one developed for the Apple II here: 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzgp7xTp1k&fmt=18
> 
> I think a minimal graphical web browser (ala WAP) is possible, maybe 
> written in C under OS-9 (or pure assembler, or maybe a mix of assembler 
> and CBASIC-3), provided that a major part of the system is a "host 
> server" program that translates the WAP-like requests into standard 
> browser requests, translating the returned data into "WAP" format (or 
> downloading the "WAP" format directly if the page is referenced as such) 
> and delivering it back to the custom browser running on the CoCo.

Something you may or may not be aware of: OS-9 Pascal P-code programs are not
limited in their accessible memory space, possibly due to the interpreter's
use of overlays. Note, this only applies to P-code programs; once compiled to
native code they're just as limited as everything else that doesn't use custom
"virtual memory" schemes.

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