Software engineer Michael Brutman's personal website is hosted on an IBM PCjr (pronounced PC junior), a machine that launched way back in March of 1984. Brutman's 39-year-old...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.