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Products that do what My 486 Server does
Hello. I wrote a multitasking 16-bit real mode "operating system" that works on every IBM PC compatible computer, and a TCP/IP stack for it. Then I wrote an HTTP server for it.
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2021 · twitter.com
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2012 · github.com
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2016 · github.com
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2014 · github.com
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2014 · github.com
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2021 · github.com
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This is based on an approach I made for a very high performance message and video multiplexing server. The project died, but I'm glad I get to share the a basic version with some http test code now. I admit this is the second time I've tried to show this off here today; I posted earlier but it got lost when no-one was watching :(
2011 · github.com
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I recently finished a round of tweaks on my barebones mud-server and thought HN might be interested. https://github.com/endgame/MudCore It sits somewhere between socketmud and a full mud like tbamud in that it handles all the socket work and telnet negotiation, but it makes no assumptions about anything else. The other interesting thing is that it can talk to other services using ZeroMQ. I'm interested in reactions, particularly in terms of coding style, documentation quality and so on. It's my main "presentation piece" so far, in that it's some of the first code I actually feel proud to…
2012
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2014 · github.com
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2016 · github.com
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Warning: As soon as I post this I know the machine is going to be basically DoS'ed. It's not hard to DoS a DOS machine. The machine may refuse to serve your request, but it will stay running, and that's the important part. This is a follow-up to something I posted three weeks ago. Ye old web server running the mTCP HTTP server on DOS has now passed 500 hours of runtime and it is still going, at least until the power glitches. The stats so far: Run-time: 505 hours TCP/IP connections: 34230 Objects served: 38865 TCP Packets sent/received: 996627, 889798 All packet types…
2022 · brutmanlabs.org
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I’ve been building Canine for about 2 years now, and have slowly grown it to about ~1000 developers using it for deploying all sorts of apps / projects / etc. Amazingly, the whole thing is still able to run on a single 48GB Hetzner VPS. Think of it basically like Coolify, for Kubernetes. I previously posted about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44292103 Recently, we added MCP capabilities to canine, and I was shocked how well it worked. It basically is able to create services, cron jobs, databases, get the logs for these and redeploy. See it here:…
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2020 · github.com
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https://myserverisonfire.com Just got this made and I'm using it daily for personal use. Looking for beta testers and feedback! :)
2014
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I built a simple multi user, multi board, Task/Kanban MCP server. I have been looking for something like this to manage development agents, but I wasn't seeing anything that felt like what I wanted. So I set down and decided to vibe code an alternative. While it was an experiment at first I have been using it daily for my personal development projects and I really think there are others who might be looking for exactly this. It's 100% a WIP, but it is also very usable. I have a demo instance running at https://mootasks.dev. If you find this interesting I'd appreciate a star.…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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2017 · github.com
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2015 · cloudrino.net
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2020 · github.com
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2023 · github.com
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Jul 2026 · github.com
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2015 · stackbus.com
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