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Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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It's hosted on a machine with 4M of ram on windows 3.11, and specifically uses a web server which doesn't use caching (And I don't think Dos 6 caches files at the OS level, at least by default)

DOS does: https://home.csulb.edu/~murdock/buffers.html

Nice, although if it is set to 15, that's only 7,680 bytes of buffer, and even 99 is just 50,688 bytes. It's not loading now, but I suspect a single load of all those images will flush that data

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Which reminds me of a catastrophe movie, where all countries launched all their nukes, and earth became radioactively poisoned. A submarine survived, looking for signs of life, and they received sporadic messages like "the whales are fine" (which made sense to them since whales live under-water). They went to the origin of the signal, only to find a computer turning on and off because of its solar panel, sending mess…

This would be an interesting watch, I tried searching but couldn't find it, can you share the name of the movie?

I think it's On the Beach, a remake of a 1950s movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/

Here's the original: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Your comment was a shallow dismissal. Please don't post those.

Re: A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading)

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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.

I've never used a floppy disk before so I wouldn't know that sound. I think making sure your site fits on it could be a challenge.
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