Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

  • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com
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    1 year ago

    Wow! I did’t think that the IBM PC Jr. would even be capable of running a TCP/IP stack let alone a small, low power web server. That’s pretty dang impressive.

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      1 year ago

      At 33 watt (original power supply) it’s extremely inefficient though. But considering it’s 4 decades old; 33 watt was probably very economic back then.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wrote a partial tcp stack that ran on a cortex m3 microcontroller, it could marginally serve web pages. Remember tcp was basically designed when the 386 was a beast, memory is the main limitation.