39-Year-old 4.77 MHz DOS web server hits 2,500 hours of uptime
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The website is pretty swift, considering there's just a 39-year-old IBM PCjr behind it.
Sometimes, the hamsters win
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The website is pretty swift, considering there's just a 39-year-old IBM PCjr behind it.
Sometimes, the hamsters win
I saw this on Facebook the other day. In other news, Mom's cat "Fuzz" puked up a furball this morning. It was not uncommon for unattended DOS systems to run for a year or more. Three months is not news. When WIndows became more popular so did rebooting. I think the only thing that was a native problem with a DOS system sitting idle was if it didn't make a system call. The internal calender date would not advance until a system call was made so the calendar would stop if sitting at a DOS prompt. It would not know if the clock passed a second midnight. But most systems were doing something if they were left on, so it wasn't really an issue.