I think I have a differnet view on this. The Macintosh is a 512K. It has the motherboard, case, analog board of a 512K. But it has been adjusted. Probably somewhere between 1985 and 1987 the machine is upgraded. The DPS expantion is added, with the 128K ROMS and a 800K disk drive. If I would tell anyone what kind of computer it is I would tell him it like this. And yes...that makes it capacibilities the same as an Macintosh Plus.
My experiment is not about running a web server on a floppy. It is about running a FTP server on a minimal Macintosh with System. My first proof of concept is done on the upgraded 512K. Until now I was not able to run any kind of TCP/IP server below 7.0. I´m not talking about all kind of applications, but only about a TCP/IP service where the Macintosh act as server, not as client.
FTP is a different protocol than HTTP. FTP is already from the ´70
(Bhushan, Abhay, "A File Transfer Protocol", RFC 114 (NIC 5823), MIT-Project MAC, 16 April 1971.)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc114.html
I agree that it is nice to see how low we can go :b&w:
So maybe it is a good idea to see on which system MacTCP will still work
It is also nice to see if this works on an actual non modified 512K. When I think about it... I'm beginning to have my doubts... but it would be fun to test!
Maybe someone with unmodified one can test?
I think the misunderstanding about the 1024K is because I thought all 512Ke had 1024K on board. Now I learned that thats not the case.
For the record...my article didn't claim it run on 512K only. And I'm not out for some kind of medal, I'm just having fun with my Macintoshes and like to share this with other people so we all learn how to do things on our Macs....
My experiment is not about running a web server on a floppy. It is about running a FTP server on a minimal Macintosh with System. My first proof of concept is done on the upgraded 512K. Until now I was not able to run any kind of TCP/IP server below 7.0. I´m not talking about all kind of applications, but only about a TCP/IP service where the Macintosh act as server, not as client.
FTP is a different protocol than HTTP. FTP is already from the ´70
(Bhushan, Abhay, "A File Transfer Protocol", RFC 114 (NIC 5823), MIT-Project MAC, 16 April 1971.)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc114.html
I agree that it is nice to see how low we can go :b&w:
So maybe it is a good idea to see on which system MacTCP will still work
It is also nice to see if this works on an actual non modified 512K. When I think about it... I'm beginning to have my doubts... but it would be fun to test!
Maybe someone with unmodified one can test?
I think the misunderstanding about the 1024K is because I thought all 512Ke had 1024K on board. Now I learned that thats not the case.
For the record...my article didn't claim it run on 512K only. And I'm not out for some kind of medal, I'm just having fun with my Macintoshes and like to share this with other people so we all learn how to do things on our Macs....