Wow! I did't think that the IBM PC Jr. would even be capable of running a TCP/IP stack let alone a small, low power web server. That's pretty dang impressive.
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At 33 watt (original power supply) it's extremely inefficient though. But considering it's 4 decades old; 33 watt was probably very economic back then.
33 Watts including the crt?
Wrote a partial tcp stack that ran on a cortex m3 microcontroller, it could marginally serve web pages. Remember tcp was basically designed when the 386 was a beast, memory is the main limitation.
That was my first computer! I spent hundreds of hours with that BASIC cartridge. Now I’m getting all nostalgic.
Right there with you. Learned to read, spell, game and code on that little work horse.
A web server is just a program that communicates with a network. I'm running web sites completely from chips as large as the fingernail of your pinkie.
Exactly, and processing power in small chips is insane now. You can run Doom on a damn bios chip now.
Hell, my esp8266s can run a basic web server and login portal without breaking a sweat.
I'd be surprised, but I remember seeing a website that ran from a scientific calculator iirc. It's still very fascinating though.
Does it run an online version of Doom?
Its not powerful enough. Might do wolfenstein tho.
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