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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by userbinator on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:15PM (#36732497)
I guess HTTPS is just a little bit too much processing power for it to handle?
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Re:2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server by mbbrutman on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:18PM (#36732515)
Yeah, far too much for a little CPU like this. Never mind the horror of trying to port all of the libraries and keep them up to date.

Although there are people are using Apache in front of their vintage computers to terminate SSL for them while still having the vintage computer handle the request.

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