Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

Re:Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the ... by pianopatrick on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:22PM (#49861577)

Well I think if you were doing the 1976 way you might not even have multi processing or multi threading. Just a single process with a single thread. And so you don't have a database connection pool, you just have a single database connection and do one query at a time maybe.

That may not work for network connected software with lots of requests per second. But such software did not exist too much in 1976 either as there was not very much networking going on.

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Re:Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the ... by jasomill on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:04PM (#49862264)

There were absolutely multiuser computer systems processing transactions from thousands of users in 1976.

As for networking, both the ARPANET and Ethernet predate 1976, though neither were ubiqutitous and most high-volume networking would have been mainframes and related hardware connected via leased lines.

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