DOS ain't dead - Serving HTML from MS-DOS

DosWorld

29.01.2024, 23:07

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JFYI, https://blog.raduzaharia.com/serving-html-from-ms-dos-8c49743ff544

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RayeR

CZ,
31.01.2024, 00:32

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That one written in basic looks quite recent version... :)
Many years ago I tried to play with EZ-NOS DOS webserver. I don't remember exactly, it might run as TSR or have some dos shell to let you do other work while serving on background...

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glennmcc

North Jackson, Ohio (USA),
31.01.2024, 02:30

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> That one written in basic looks quite recent version... :)
> Many years ago I tried to play with EZ-NOS DOS webserver. I don't remember
> exactly, it might run as TSR or have some dos shell to let you do other
> work while serving on background...

I also used to play around with EZ-NOS

Just a had look at the EZ-NOS log files directory here.

The most recent use was 2011-03-26

I too don't recall if it had the capability of shelling-out
or if the machine was then 'tied-up' running the HTTP/FTP server.

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Berlin, Germany,
31.01.2024, 07:47

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> > That one written in basic looks quite recent version... :)
> > Many years ago I tried to play with EZ-NOS DOS webserver. I don't
> remember
> > exactly, it might run as TSR or have some dos shell to let you do other
> > work while serving on background...
>
> I also used to play around with EZ-NOS
>
> Just a had look at the EZ-NOS log files directory here.
>
> The most recent use was 2011-03-26
>
> I too don't recall if it had the capability of shelling-out
> or if the machine was then 'tied-up' running the HTTP/FTP server.

One could shell-out only. No TSR. Same for JNOS or TNOS.

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dggionco

Buenos Aires - Argentina,
31.01.2024, 14:05

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A small compilation of some programs that I have known:

A) Some MS DOS Web Servers

1 - HTTPServ
Michael Brutman
V 2023-03-31

2 - Sioux
Georg Potthast

2 - EZNOS
DOS Solutions
V 2.11.K
Are other versions of NOS family (JNOS, TNOS...)

3 - Jaffa
Sensation
V 0005 (very early release)

4 - NTOOL (an incarnation of NETCAT)
Jürgen Hoffmann
V 1.5

=> Very basic WEB server

@echo off
:loop
ntool -l -p 80 < message.htm
if not errorlevel 1 goto loop

B) Some MS Windows 3.x Web Servers

1 - WSPlug
Pascal Urien, Dominique Bolignano
V 3.6

2 - W4-Server
Antelope Software
V 2.3a

3 - Web SVR
Ing-Long Eric Kuo
V 1.01B beta B

mbbrutman

Washington, USA,
31.01.2024, 20:30

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I have a PCjr (1983 technology) that has been serving brutmanlabs.org for 10 months now with no reboots, restarts or interruptions. That includes two or three "hugs of death" from when sites such as Tom's Hardware wrote about it.
It's running the mTCP HTTP server; you can see the current uptime and packet statistics at http://brutmanlabs.org/status.

floppy.museum is also running the mTCP HTTP server, and it runs entirely from floppy drives which then load a RAM disk. I don't think there is a hard drive on the system.

www.palmtoptube.com is another example.

samwdpckr 04.02.2024, 02:49 @ mbbrutman	Serving HTML from MS-DOS Post reply
	I also have a DOS web server, but it uses my own DOS implementation and not MS-DOS: http://486servu.dy.fi The software would also work on a 8088, but I don't own such machine.