2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server

Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by tinus_hn on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:27PM (#36732224)

That’s slightly over 100 days of uptime. How is this special?

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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by mbbrutman on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:31PM (#36732239)

100+ days of runtime on nearly 40 year old hardware not designed as a server exposed to all of the garbage coming in on port 80.

Remember, this is a home computer from the mid 1980s. This thing is way outside of it's duty cycle. And the software is holding up pretty well too, even during what is effectively a DoS attack on a DOS machine.

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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by quickthrower2 on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:45PM (#36732344)

Oh they mean a real web server exposed to the internet (not hiding behind an NGINX). Impressive.

Hug of death means I didn’t see the article

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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by tinus_hn on Saturday July 15, 2023 @04:24AM (#36734755)

Wow expectations sure have come down! When that computer was new, people had uptimes measured in years, 100 days was pedestrian.

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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by IntelMiner on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:36AM (#36735347)

And we were all on HN 40 years ago huh?

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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by tinus_hn on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:21AM (#36736477)

Well it’s about a computer from 40 years ago! That’s why I don’t see what’s so special; any computer from that era that still works today could easily run for a hundred days.

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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by anyfoo on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:32PM (#36732244)

Serious question: How could this not be special?

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