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This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#41

Is this Casio colocated in a Hetzner datacenter?

It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites you barely notice the difference.

Sure, but with fixed hardware resources you risk the site going down with traffic spikes like this, with AWS you have access to calculatorless options that can easily scale to handle increased request volume.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#43
post #3

Hm, maybe posting this to HN wasn't the best idea...?

In case it completely dies there are archives now available: http://web.archive.org/web/20210712193555/http://fxip.as2034... https://archive.is/5a44i Or the whole thing is small enough to fit in a comment: > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: fxip.as203478.net > User-Agent: curl/7.76.1 > Accept: */* > * Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse * HTTP 1.0, assume close after body Casio fx-9750GII Webserver * { margin: 0; padding: 0…

Thanks.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#44
post #32

Doesn't this run on one of the CPUs Sega used in the Saturn or Dreamcast?

Not quite the same CPU but they're all based on the SuperH ISA. The 32X and Saturn both had dual SH-2s, Dreamcast had an SH-4, and Casio uses SH-3 and SH-4. The Dreamcast SH-4 has an FPU but the Casio one doesn't.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites you barely notice the difference.

Sure, but with fixed hardware resources you risk the site going down with traffic spikes like this, with AWS you have access to calculatorless options that can easily scale to handle increased request volume.

Is that their competing product offering to match virtualizaled calculators delivered by hyperdivisor?

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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post #32

Doesn't this run on one of the CPUs Sega used in the Saturn or Dreamcast?

Same as in the Dreamcast yes, albeit the Casio seems to be clocked far lower (29mhz in Casio vs 200mhz for DC). Also the memory seems a bit anemic at 60ish-kb vs 16mb main for the DC (+8mb videomem and 2mb audiomem).

It was a fine CPU for the era with parallel instructions but also a fairly deep pipe compared to other contemporaries so it did best with a bit of hand tuning. (We worked on a DC game and Transform&Lighting loops needed hand optimizations iirc)

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