Couldn't you cache the entire site? The speed of the floppy shouldn't matter that much.
That would remove the fun wouldn't it? I want to believe there is that crunching floppy sound when I press a link.
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That's what I was thinking. Look, I stored my site in a very slow medium. See, it's slow.
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#34Pragmatic approach would be host it from floppy disk, but have some caching proxy before it. It could cache into RAM, most modern machines have enough memory to cache many many many floppies. Even Raspberry Pi.
This is exactly what Linux will do by default, without any special setup or config. Everything goes through the buffer cache. In fact, you would have to do active work to disable the caching.
Don’t all modern operating systems have a RAM-based disk cache?
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#37Pragmatic approach would be host it from floppy disk, but have some caching proxy before it. It could cache into RAM, most modern machines have enough memory to cache many many many floppies. Even Raspberry Pi.
The pragmatic approach would be to not host it from a floppy. If you are going to host it on a floppy then just having it all constantly in cache somewhat defeats the point.
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#39Pragmatic approach would be host it from floppy disk, but have some caching proxy before it. It could cache into RAM, most modern machines have enough memory to cache many many many floppies. Even Raspberry Pi.
The pragmatic approach would be to not host it from a floppy. If you are going to host it on a floppy then just having it all constantly in cache somewhat defeats the point.
You need somewhere to persist writes from those CGI scripts.
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I think it's interesting and creative...
To me it's as interesting as putting a lawnmower engine in a container ship. Not even worth firing up because you know the ship won't move anywhere. I'd rather read about the story and implementation.
Lead with the positive curiosity of wanting to know how the author did this rather than your negativity of “what’s the point?” The author could very well post a follow-up article detailing how