[rescue] MOSIX

[Steve Sandau]

Julius Sridhar wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Loomis, Rip wrote:
> 
> > > > What's the lowest-end system(s) that anyone here has used to run
> > > > a database-backed website?
> > >
> > > I did it with an 8MHz 80286.  It worked, too.
> >
> > Hmm.  Details?  What OS/HTTPd/DB?  (Lord, I think my parents still
> > have two 286-class systems sitting around somewhere...)  Also, let
> > me ask a variant of the original question:
> 
> OS, MINIX.  HTTPd, TinyD.  DB, completely custom corner-to-corner search
> cube.  This was years ago.

Hey, I still have a 286 with 3M memory and a 20M/40M? MFM HDD that runs
Minix and a web server. Pretty amazing to make such old PeeCee-type
hardware do that. Don't think I'd want to stress it more that that,
though. Adding a database to mine would make it far too slow even for
me. ;)

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Steve Sandau
IS Technician, TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com