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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 18:11:52 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Ah, a vintage server room! And naturally, a Linux zoo. What else would they run back then? Windows NT? Please. That's like bringing a knife to a lightsaber fight. 😉 The only other acceptable choice was FreeBSD ;) Haha! I'm sure old timers here remember those white boxes.

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   • popey (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 18:22:57 JST popey

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     @nixCraft
     In the 1990s at Deloitte Consulting, I ran OS/2 Warp on a beige Compaq "server" (desktop) as a remote dial-in box for Lotus cc:Mail. It had a "Digi" branded 8-way serial card attached to 8 US Robotics modems.

     The phone lines were in a hunt group to round-robin the calls.
     The clients were Dell Latitude XP & XPi, 486 & Pentium 100/133 machines running Windows 3.11.

     Some clients dialed in every minute to get their mail, which was insane. I dread to think what their phone bills were!