I was thinking, what if we added internet support, as in full fledged internet support, not just fetch(insertwebsitehere) which grabs the raw data of the site. Because what if one wanted to not have to switch between the picotron app/os and back to their browser to look up information, if they added a built in web browser of some sorts and maybe more than just fetching raw data from a website, maybe even POST and more, it could open a LOT of possibilities with projects.
For example:
- Better automatic update systems for anything that has to do with automatic updates.
- being able to use APIS from the internet.
- making a package manager of some sort that allows users to install more commands an their HELP info. (I would name this PicoPkg)
- full on internet platforms and maybe even some special self hosted stuff.
- just a full on web browser or something, maybe this os could even open html files like chrome or firefox or whatever other web browser you use does.
Plus, imagine if this Fantasy workstation could be used in schools as a working operating system of sorts. If it had a web browser that would be a start, heck maybe even extensions of some sort if one could actually make that, and schools could maybe even create some sort of extension themselves (I would make them go in .pwe64 files maybe) and an app for their students to use.
I think this would be a pretty good idea, but the implementation would have to be secure.



it does have web support, in terms of fetch, but I do agree it's not enough. The next update, which will come in... some number of weeks will add support for things like TCP and websockets I believe, and people will definitely make cool things using that.



@Soupster based on the roadmap, that's not until v0.3 right? If that's true it could be a number of months until we see these features.
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