Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
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Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
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Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#2> That's because DOS webservers can only keep track of 8- or 16-ish concurrent requests
Is that because of the lack of official 'forking'/threading, or due to the limitations of whatever TCP stack is being used for the listen() / accept() calls? (or something else?)
Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#3This is the kind of blog post I come to HN for!
Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#4> That's because DOS webservers can only keep track of 8- or 16-ish concurrent requests Is that because of the lack of official 'forking'/threading, or due to the limitations of whatever TCP stack is being used for the listen() / accept() calls? (or something else?)
I wrote a web server for CP/M, the issue there was that the C library could only hold the state of a small number of FILE* at a time, because they were allocated statically.
Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#5> That's because DOS webservers can only keep track of 8- or 16-ish concurrent requests
No different to my Python gunicorn web server then
Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#6> Your server will be secure because it's obscure. But it's still very likely to become a target for autistic geniuses.
I legit laughed out loud.
Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#7> That's because DOS webservers can only keep track of 8- or 16-ish concurrent requests No different to my Python gunicorn web server then
If you can do more than 10 concurrent requests you don't have enough abstraction layers :)
Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#8A minor annoyance, I prefer to keep my mouse out of the way to one side when I scroll on a website, but if you have you mouse outside of the narrowest extremes of the columns on this website, scrolling does nothing. Otherwise an interesting writeup
Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#9the retro vibes...
Re: Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)
#10To be honest, I thought he was running it bare metal.