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[off topic] For the people still using old 16bit vintage PCS - ngIRCd - IRC Server

defdefred defdefred at protonmail.com

Tue Aug 31 10:00:58 BST 2021

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I understand, but the point is that older x86 are power intensive.So OK to have fun as desktop machine, but not as server running H24...

I do use old computer as main Linux machine... I call them "ordinosaure" in french :-) like computosaure...

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On Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 at 10:24, Carsten Strotmann <carsten at strotmann.de> wrote:

On 31 Aug 2021, at 10:11, defdefred wrote:
Single Board Computer, like RaspberryPi.
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On Monday, August 30th, 2021 at 17:56, Sergei Gnezdov sergei.gnezdov at gmail.com wrote:
What is SBC?
On 8/30/21 7:33 AM, defdefred wrote:
Why not switching to SBC with less energy used?
because SBCs are not "vintage computers".
The goal of "vintage computing" is not using low resource machines, but keeping, using and preserving "old" machines.
ngIRCd enables "vintage computer" enthusiasts to use vintage hardware for as an IRC server, for example on vintage computer meetings.
Some people (like me) have fun doing so.
A project like ngIRCd is not aimed to have such an IRC-Server run 24h/365d in the Internet (but I guess some people will do, because they can).
Greetings
Carsten