I've wanted to use my M100 as a twitter client for a long time. Twitter, facebook, wikipedia, lots of places on the web require SSL. I've also wanted to make my DOS desktop computer my main desktop computer for day-to-day stuff. So, in my search for SSL for Arachne I came across Lynx for DOS, which used OpenSSL. OpenSLL is written in Posix complaint C (so it says).

I imagine it'd be very hard to port to 8085 assembler; but then I've been wanting to port Small-C to the M100 for a long time, too. I've got the source code and everything, I just need to find the time.

The question is... would an M100 be powerful enough to implement SSL in a timely enough fashion to make the machine useful as a twitter client? I suppose if OpenSSL can be ported to the M100, a Lynx client could be written for it, as well as an email client. Maybe an Arachne-like multi-app web client?

If I were to get Small-C ported to the M100, does anyone feel they would be more encouraged to develop stuff for the M100? Is anyone other than me even interested in trying to make it so they could access things like twitter from their M100?

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