Web server running on RSX-11M-PLUS

[Johnny Billquist]

Ok. I just thought I'd stir some interest and just general noise by
announcing that I've written a small web-server running under RSX.
It's written in BASIC+2, and uses the TCP/IP stack for RSX that I've
also written. There are probably a bunch of bugs and issues still
around, so I'm happy to take any bug reports, comments or whatever.

The url is http://madame.update.uu.se/, and if anyone is curious about
the code, it's at mim.update.uu.se (same machine, other IP), under
MIM::DU:[HTTPD]WWW.B2S (also on HECnet)

If people have any interest in this stuff, or something else/more, I'm
interested in hearing about it. The TCP/IP stack will eventually (soon)
be available for others to download and use, and apart from the web
server, I've also written a telnet client, and a few small services
under TCP, as well as some tools for administration. I have some
polishing to do, I need to finish a DNS resolved, and I'd like to also
finish FTP and a telnet server, but I might be open to distributing
things before I've finished all those things, especially if someone is
interested in helping writing stuff.

I have interfaces completed for BASIC+2, PDP-11 C, Macro-11. FORTRAN 77
should also work, but I haven't tried it yet.

This all runs under RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6, but I think it should be possible
to get running under almost any M+ version, but there might be some
hacking needed for some versions.
It will not work under 11M, and I never expect it to. One or two drivers
as well as one or two tools really are big enough that I need to use the
split I/D space feature in M+. Rewriting stuff to not need that is way
too much work.

Johnny

[Mark Matlock]

On Apr 12, 9:13 am, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
> Ok. I just thought I'd stir some interest and just general noise by
> announcing that I've written a small web-server running under RSX.
> It's written in BASIC+2, and uses the TCP/IP stack for RSX that I've
> also written. There are probably a bunch of bugs and issues still
> around, so I'm happy to take any bug reports, comments or whatever.
>

> The url ishttp://madame.update.uu.se/, and if anyone is curious about

> the code, it's at mim.update.uu.se (same machine, other IP), under
> MIM::DU:[HTTPD]WWW.B2S (also on HECnet)
>
> If people have any interest in this stuff, or something else/more, I'm
> interested in hearing about it. The TCP/IP stack will eventually (soon)
> be available for others to download and use, and apart from the web
> server, I've also written a telnet client, and a few small services
> under TCP, as well as some tools for administration. I have some
> polishing to do, I need to finish a DNS resolved, and I'd like to also
> finish FTP and a telnet server, but I might be open to distributing
> things before I've finished all those things, especially if someone is
> interested in helping writing stuff.
>
> I have interfaces completed for BASIC+2, PDP-11 C, Macro-11. FORTRAN 77
> should also work, but I haven't tried it yet.
>
> This all runs under RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6, but I think it should be possible
> to get running under almost any M+ version, but there might be some
> hacking needed for some versions.
> It will not work under 11M, and I never expect it to. One or two drivers
> as well as one or two tools really are big enough that I need to use the
> split I/D space feature in M+. Rewriting stuff to not need that is way
> too much work.
>
>         Johnny

Johnny,
Very cool!

Who says you can't teach old dogs new tricks (not that RSX was EVER a
dog).
I for one will be very interested in your TCP/IP stack and the clients
and servers.
It's great to know that someone is still cranking out some interesting
code and tools
for RSX. Thanks a bunch for your efforts!

Mark