I've got a pentium 90 I occasionally turn on and I'll reply again when I do here. Hosting stuff from it is wildly taxing. It's on my internal network and I proxy it through apache over a raspberry pi. But it does genuinely serve content to the proxy - which does not cache it.
The machine runs netbsd with apache and has 128MB of memory and, as a cheat I'll admit, uses a SD/IDE bridge device to go to an ATA/100 interface (my older compatible PATA drives were failing on it ... I think there's some shelf-life degradation on those things although I never actually looked it up).
But even on the 100MB/s nic, the thing is unacceptably slow in serving pages. Maybe modern apache not being designed for 1994 hardware has something to do with it. I have some bullshit toy webserver I wrote, geez, 18 years ago, I wonder if it will be faster (https://github.com/kristopolous/apac) ... exciting things to look forward to after I bike home from this coffee shop.
That weird readme was some kind of pre-markdown markdown I had made and have long lost the interpreter for.
update: just tried compiling it. still works and serves pages. I like how I had SunOS support, lol. It's probably comically insecure so have fun I guess?
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I've got a pentium 90 I occasionally turn on and I'll reply again when I do here. Hosting stuff from it is wildly taxing. It's on my internal network and I proxy it through apache over a raspberry pi. But it does genuinely serve content to the proxy - which does not cache it.
The machine runs netbsd with apache and has 128MB of memory and, as a cheat I'll admit, uses a SD/IDE bridge device to go to an ATA/100 interface (my older compatible PATA drives were failing on it ... I think there's some shelf-life degradation on those things although I never actually looked it up).
But even on the 100MB/s nic, the thing is unacceptably slow in serving pages. Maybe modern apache not being designed for 1994 hardware has something to do with it. I have some bullshit toy webserver I wrote, geez, 18 years ago, I wonder if it will be faster (https://github.com/kristopolous/apac) ... exciting things to look forward to after I bike home from this coffee shop.
That weird readme was some kind of pre-markdown markdown I had made and have long lost the interpreter for.
update: just tried compiling it. still works and serves pages. I like how I had SunOS support, lol. It's probably comically insecure so have fun I guess?
Here's the pentium 90 running apache: http://bootstra386.com/~hn/
it's worth noting, this is a public machine. You can log into it and even make your own account
It's wild to see what's actually slow that's imperceptible now and what claims to be intel 586 32-bit compatible which actually no longer is.
This was a cute blast from the past, thanks for sharing.