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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by drzaiusapelord on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:09PM (#29960742)
Yep this! People would regularly run windows 95 on a 486 with 8-16mb of ram. This was their daily driver which did word, dial up/aol/prodigy, messaging, games, etc. I think the reaction here that someone is able to run a little web server off of it is perhaps a bit overdone. Yes, its impressive he wrote his own stack, but the hardware itself is still beefy.
Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by smoppi on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:16PM (#29960823)
Yeah, a 486 is not a slow CPU - not even the 25 MHz SX version that the server has. But Windows 95 is a 32-bit protected mode OS. My OS also works on a 8088, but I don't have a 8088 computer that I could use as a server.