I actually bought one of these a week ago when I saw this video from another forum post...
Can't wait to get my hands on it
BTW, I've got, for one of my new videos, and for my YouTube channel, been building a website for my channel,
where you can see my list of videos, get Howtos and tutorials, forum / support links
(and yes to this forum off course!
),
and a download area for 200LX related software, like enablers/drivers/tools/software/games/patches etc...
The whole website is hosted on a doublespeed HP 200LX, with a 10mbits CF ethernet adapter in a CF to PCMCIA adapter,
with an RJ-45 dongle attached. The webserver runs on DOS and it's quite snappy
about 100KB/sec throughput when
downloading files from it. The webserver software/drivers are on the C: Ram drive, and the website data is mounted on a network drive,
from my Linux NAS, and I've got a 16GB filesystem made for the website, which is mounted on the palmtop and
contains the webserver's web root and other directories like cache and logs etc...
It's working quite nicely, the site is far from finished, just the main page has content on it, but I'm adding stuff daily,
so in a few weeks when the basics are all there, I'll be making a video on how I set the entire thing up.
Try it out:
http://www.palmtoptube.com
I'd love to hear if it works properly, and what kind of speed/responsiveness/experience you get when browsing it from the US,
as it's hosted from New Zealand (i've fiber and a static IP at home)
I'm using DOS / mTCP, not Minix.
The reason is that I cannot get the PCMCA NIC to work in Minix, so I have to use SLIP/PPP to connect the palmtop to the network,
and the maximum stable line speed i can get is 38400 baud, which would be 25x slower than my ethernet card equipped webserver,
and give me about 4KB/sec throughput, which would be ridiculous to try and run a webserver off.
Imagine having multiple people browsing and downloading several files of 2-3MB each from the download area all over a 4KB/sec network link
It's pretty sad, as using Minix for the webserver would have been much better, as I could have had dynamic content with cgi-bin,
and all the other advantages you get with running a webserver on a UNIX-like OS.
I still plan to make the 2nd Minix video, where i demonstrate how to compile a new kernel with networking support, and how how to connect it
to a linux machine with PPP or SLIP.
So for now, due to not having an ethernet card on Minix, it's MS-DOS and mTCP for the webserver...
Since the mTCP httpserv only supports HTTP, as HTTPS is too complex for such a slow system,
and the fact that you really need HTTPS on your website nowadays otherwise you end up with
some issues like people getting warnings that the site is not safe
(scaring them away
) etc...
I was thinking of setting up a separate raspberry PI to act as a HTTPS to HTTP reverse proxy,
so incoming HTTPS connections are decrypten and forwarded to the 200LX,
the mTCP httpserv responds to the request, and the raspberry PI then encrypts the results
and sends them back to the user's webbrowser which made the HTTPS request...
I think this is the only solution to the HTTPS issue...
Cheers,
Terrence
Edited by radiance32 2022-01-16 10:35 PM